<p>i'm going to be receiving a hhmi (howard hughes medical institute) grant in the summer of 2010.... so i put that as pending in the awards and honors section. but i just realized today that i wont "directly" be receiving that grant. since my lab gets the grant, and i'm paid from that grant. while i do need to submit my final research paper, i'm basically guaranteed to get the money.... does this actually count as a grant? or will colleges think im lying (or stretching the truth.....)???
maybe i just shouldnt have put it. but i know hhmi just looks prestigious.. ugh</p>
<p>unless the grant was an award for your research and not a research grant which helps fund your research, that shouldn’t go in the awards/honors section. since you mention that your lab gets the grant (not you directly), i’m betting it’s a research grant which funds the research and equipment and whatnot. not really an award or honor. you can put it in the “additional info” box though.</p>
<p>the problem is that i already submitted all my apps… i also put it as pending… so they probably don’t care as much since i’m admitting that i didnt recieve it yet…
do you think they’ll really care?? should I bother to go and call the colleges and be like oh wait, take that out? (is that even allowed…)</p>
<p>Leave it as is. Technically, you miswrote the grant, but since you described it as “pending”. then it doesn’t matter as much anyway.</p>
<p>I think colleges will understand. Only college professors with significance research experience receive those grants. Unless you personally had to prepare the application & recommendations & 10 billion pages of other forms, it’s not really your achievement. My lab has several millions in funding (not kidding)…if only I earned them all…</p>
<p>yeah oh well… i hope they don’t think everything else in my application is overstated as well…</p>