<p>@HeisAidanD NHS depends on what it’s like at your school. If you actually meet and do stuff together (i.e. it takes up time), then list it as a club. If your school is like mine and you get inducted and that’s the end of that, then list it as an honour. </p>
<p>@dopecake You should only use this section to write about outside factors that would have effected your performance in school or limited your time to participate in activities, such as a death in the family, an illness, etc. If you have activities or classes that you don’t have room for on the normal application part for those, you can list them here. Generally, it’s best to not risk over-explaining things, and if you don’t HAVE to write something here, don’t. You don’t want to make the adcoms annoyed because they have to read unnecessary information :)</p>
<p>@emenya Well I teach, and I’m auditing a class, so I still have an hour’s worth of homework for the class I’m auditing and I have to do the reading for the class I’m teaching and prepare my lectures, which is like another 2 hours. I’m also working on other projects (reading a Shakespeare play a week in chronological order, teaching myself German, taking a Harvard EdX course, etc.) which take up time. So, I kind of have homework…</p>
<p>I am having a really tough time filling out the Honors section. </p>
<p>I’ve transfered from another school junior year and used to have a bunch of awards from my first school that I no longer have because of moving + I didn’t think keeping the diplomas would be that important. I can barely remember any of the awards that I had from my first school and this is freaking me out since I don’t wanna look like I have got nothing!! I remember having some honor roll and departamental awards (awards given from teachers to top students in their class) but nothing specific so I can’t give any descriptions</p>
<p>What can I do?? Will this make my application look terrible? I’m scared and don’t know what to do, emailing my old school probably wouldn’t help since I don’t think they keep track of stuff like that and I don’t know if those things are on my school record either.</p>
<p>@myrealname1 You don’t actually have a space to give a description of awards, and 99.999% of the time, they won’t ask to see your certificates. It’s fine. I’m not sure if most schools do this, but my school keeps a record of the awards a student wins. You can always try contacting your school to see if they have this information for you.</p>
<p>I want to write an essay about how I am interested in the intersection of business and medicine, and how two of my ECs represent this interest. Which topic could I manipulate this into? Topic #1? Or should I go with something else?</p>
<p>If it helps, one EC is that I co-led a two-week intensive on entrepreneurship, where a group of students and I visited start-ups in NYC, etc. The other is that I intern at a lab in an epilepsy center at a large hospital, and have written a biology extended essay using the lab data from the center.</p>
<p>One of the two teacher recommendations (my bio teacher) will also be talking about my interested in business and medicine, and about these two things. With this in mind, should I write about something else? She doesn’t really know the details of the trip to NYC, which was a pretty profound experience for me.</p>
<p>I’m in my school’s color guard, but we only got an official instructor this year, so we were by ourselves before. How should I express this in the CA? Should I write it under additional information or should I try to fit it in the “Details, honors won, and accomplishments” space?</p>
<p>I have a question regarding the common app. What if you submitted you app before the deadline but your teacher recommendation is submitted AFTER the app was due. Will that be a problem? </p>
Thanks</p>