<p>Hey guys I had a question about the awards section on the common app. I know it says academic awards and what not but can you not include awards received from ECs such as (Eagle Scout, Captain of a sports team not affiliated with one's school, winner of prizes also not affiliated with academics/school etc) If not, where is there room to add these awards? Thanks!</p>
<p>Under the Activities section it says,</p>
<p>Extracurricular: Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you. Include
specific events and/or major accomplishments such as musical instrument played, varsity letters earned, etc.</p>
<p>Can you figure this one out? Lesson: Read the instructions and follow them.</p>
<p>What if those awards I want to include aren’t the awards won from my principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies. That’s why I was wondering if I could squeeze them in the academic awards portion.</p>
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What else would they be from???</p>
<p>okay sorry i wasn’t more clear. i’ve been a boy scout for a long time and last year i became an eagle scout. i was wondering if i could list eagle scout under the awards section (even though it says academic) because i don’t indeed on putting boy scouts under my activities portion b/c i have other ECs that interest me more and that i have put more time into.</p>
<p>. . . why don’t you just list boy scouts? Besides, is being an eagle scout really going to mean much to the admissions committee if the activity didn’t mean enough to you to list under your ECs?</p>