Questions on ECs:

Applying to College
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<p>I went to a well respected US high school in grade 9. As a frosh, I was clearly not leadership since most clubs typically required membership for a year. </p>

<p>However, I won state level awards for journalism (through ESSPA) and through FBLA (2nd and 4th place). Should I mention these activities so I can mention the awards? I mean, journalism was relevant to me and business is something I'm considering as a career path (I want to run a company). </p>

<p>Also, is it bad to repeat awards? Like, I break my science involvement into two ECs and write my awards in the activities section and the major ones again in the honours (since that's a major EC). </p>

<p>Finally, should I list an EC I didn't do much in but is relevant to my interests (I wrote for a Youth Think Tank that kind of lost steam). I won an award through a competition that organization hosted - A position paper I wrote was selected for submission to the International Youth Commonwealth Forum and should be used by my country's delegates. I put a lot of work into that individual activity but not much re: my official duties. I didn't judge in that competition and I don't want people to think I had an in (if anything, it was probably the opposite). I may delete that as an activity and list it as honour (and keep FBLA). </p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>Bumping ! #10char</p>

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<p>The awards you got should be listed as awards. If they were associated with a club, the clubs should be Extracurricular. Also, colleges usually like to see ECs you were really involved in and not something you did only for one year or less. You can put it if you want surely won’t hurt imo (but it is possible that some top tier schools might see this as an attempt to report more ECs).</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>The common app, in the EC description bit allows you to include your awards, with a description, so I did that, but huh.</p>

<p>Like, I wrote “Selected for provincially competitive Heritage Youth Research Program. Associate Member of Sigma Xi Research Society.”, but then do you think it’s better to just have that in additional information and describe what I did? I’m getting a LoR from my mentor who knows me and am sending an abstract, so maybe it’s redundant.</p>