<p>Last year one of my stories on a fanfic site was chosen for the weekly featured fiction award. Does this count as a non-scholastic distinction? If so, how to I classify it? There are people from all over the world on the site, so technically only "international" counts, but that makes it sound like some huge award.</p>
<p>Hmmm… I am nto sure if that counts as a distinction personally. Unless it said specifically it was some sort of honor or award. </p>
<p>MIT’s app, however, makes what qualifies as a distinction pretty flexible. So go ahead and put it here if you have the space.</p>
<p>What should I classify it as, though? (the School/Region/State/National/International part) Or can I leave that part blank, because it doesn’t really apply?</p>
<p>Any other thoughts? The due date’s coming up fast, and I really want to submit my application today.</p>
<p>djo is right, they don’t care too much about where you put it.But personally I won’t tag it at international I will send it untagged or with some kind of handmade tag at the end like
“(online contest)”
“-online”
“[website contest]”
but it isn’t something worth stressing over don’t waste your focus on that</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s considered an international award by any stretch - even though there are people from all over the world who frequent the website, I don’t believe that the section of the population that participates is representative of the global population, which I understand most international awards aim to do (i.e., a common international award is the International Math Olympiad, which is a competition between the best math students in the world, as selected by their home countries and sent to compete on an international scale). I don’t think your website qualifies.</p>
<p>If I’m understanding the award correctly, you were selected from between 25 - maybe a thousand participants to be featured for a week, correct? Presumably, they give out one of these awards per week, so given the number of participants and the number of awards, I would say that it is a regional distinction…I feel like if you’re writing fanfiction, you’re also writing to a specific subset of the population, so I feel like the regional analogy stands. You would also definitely want to include the name of the website that awarded you this distinction, I would think.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong - it’s very cool. But it’s definitely not an international-level award, unless I am completely misunderstanding the nature of this website.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s why I didn’t put down “international”, because it makes it sound like some huge, highly prestigious award, when it’s really not that large and the site certainly isn’t that big.</p>
<p>“Regional” is more where it fits, but… do you think they’d understand what I meant by that? It’s sort of a “region” of the Internet, after all. They need an extra spot for this… it’s sort of a “community” award, in a sense, so I guess “regional” is the closest.</p>
<p>I mean, that’s why I suggested that you put the website down. They might be curious about how many people visit it or the quality of the writing and such.</p>
<p>regional could work. Not specifying it and just saying (-online award) is fine too. </p>
<p>International is for stuff like math/bio/chem/physics Olympiad for country X, or something.
It is probably a very rare box for ppl to check.</p>
<p>OK, thanks everyone for all the help! I’m going to go with “regional” and put a note in the “extra info” box at the end.</p>