<p>What is the consensus on using listing "Accepted to the ______ class of 2013" as an award or honor?</p>
<p>What exactly are you using this for? If it's for another college app, this is a really, really bad idea.</p>
<p>^ lol, agreed...</p>
<p>Yeah, if you're applying to Safety School University and you write "ACCEPTED TO STANFORD," the staff might be miffed that you're obviously using them as a backup.</p>
<p>No, it's not an award.</p>
<p>I think it's pretty universal that it's rude and wrong to put it on a college application.</p>
<p>However, if the OP doesn't mind my butting in with another question, what does everyone think of using it for scholarships/internships/jobs if a) you aren't or college, or b) you had gone to another college instead?</p>
<p>No. Once you attend College A, it's really tacky to write down "And I was also accepted to College B!!"</p>
<p>If your College B is Harvard and your College A is Nonprestigious State University, you undoubtedly have other awards that replace the very tacky "I was accepted to Harvard!"</p>
<p>If it's a safety, try it and let us know the results lol. ;)</p>
<p>lol, I might. It was more a curiosity than anything else.</p>
<p>I mean think about it, most of our awards/honors are meant to show recognition that we have qualities that the college would desire. Just like being selected for a program or competition, a college acceptance is recognizing that you have qualities desirable to a college. It's almost like using other scholarship awards when you're applying for prestigious scholarships, or using science awards when applying to RSI ect. </p>
<p>I'm thinking about trying this with peer school that I don't particularly want to attend. I would agree that on the surface level it may come off as rude, but at the same time when you're attempting to evaluate the qualities of something, it helps to know that somebody you respect who has the same standards believes that person/thing has what it takes. (eg a school and a peer school)</p>
<p>^ It is most likely to convey (however inaccurately) that you lack social judgement, maturity and character. </p>
<p>And how do you know they respect 'peer' school? You may think it's a peer based on USNWR, but what those at that school think maybe something else entirely. They may not be interested in someone who can get into "x".</p>
<p>If you have already been accepted to a school you would prefer, why would you also apply to a peer school that you don't particularily want to attend? It would be a complete waste of their time and efforts and nothing more than an ego trip for you. It comes off as rude on many levels besides the surface.</p>
<p>you're basically telling the school that if they accept you, you won't enroll. </p>
<p>you're giving them a heads-up to reject you, so they can leave your spot open for someone who actually wants to attend.</p>
<p>^That's not true. If I wasn't going to enroll, ostensibly, I wouldn't reply. Actually, as I read these responses I'm beginning to agree less with the idea it would be perceived as pompous. </p>
<p>Award/honor: Accepted to Peer School X </p>
<p>If they aren't significantly different, why would a school perceive that as "bragging". </p>
<p>Again, this is really all speculation. So we can address this in the third person instead of the "YOU OMG YOU BRAGGART!" :)</p>
<p>Feel free to advise "the third person" to which you refer to list it as an "award." If, as "the third person" to which you refer says, the schools are not significantly different then the admissions office will either:</p>
<p>-breathe a sigh of relief that they can reject "the third person" to which you refer and give that spot to another student (of the thousands of very qualified students they will have to reject this year) knowing "the third person" to which you refer is already accepted to an equivalent university, or...</p>
<p>-reject "the third person" to which you refer in an effort to show that they are more selective than the university that already admitted "the third person" to which you refer, or...</p>
<p>-if they feel they are less selective than the university "the third person" to which you refer has already been accepted to, they may reject "the third person" to which you refer assuming he/she will choose that other university and lower their yield %.</p>
<p>This thread is hillarious, and kind of pointless.</p>
<p>Many colleges do care about yield (enough to reject a guy that's obviously going elsewhere), so the strategy you're proposing is very, very dumb. In all seriousness, though, find a better award/honor to list.</p>
<p>bottom line though, if you got into Stanford (Stanford right?) you obviously had an impressive list of credentials you were able to list on your Stanford application.</p>
<p>so if you simply list those credentials, they will be just as impressed as the Stanford adcoms were when they admitted you. there's no need to add "accepted to Stanford." obviously, your credentials alone can speak for themselves.</p>