<p>Ok, so the Harvard supplement says to list any non-academic awards or honors not already mentioned in the common app.</p>
<p>So would these things be considered non-academic or academic?</p>
<p>Junior State of America- Best speaker awards</p>
<p>National Honor Society
Spanish National Honor Society
Some Medical School program thing-that we had to apply for(it was selective)</p>
<p>this is giving me a headache</p>
<p>Those are all academic and NHS and SNHS are not "honors or awards" they are just silly little clubs you can join for doing the things you're supposed to be doing in high school anyway. All of that stuff should have been on the commonapp already lol :P</p>
<p>Hey, Calculus, people are paging you over on the Princeton forum about your ED result.</p>
<p>wait Calculus, how did u go about listing NHS and SNHS then?</p>
<p>dont tell me u put them in the EC section...?</p>
<p>Ahh, odd.. I put NHS down as an award/honor, mainly since my school recognizes it as such.</p>
<p>Those are academic awards, it seems to me. Non-academic would be ASPCA Humanitarian of the Year, Youth Symphony Leader Award, Gold Medal in Special Olympics, etc. You know, NOT academic.</p>
<p>...or maybe International Sudoku championship award/
Chess Championship award/Rubiks championship....?</p>
<p>...not an award/honor that uses GPA/Academic Specialization
as a key criteria</p>
<p>I go to a public school with 650 people in my graduating class and I'm President of NHS (with around 150 members) and President SHH (which is the abbreviation for National Spanish Honor Society b/c its La Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica) with around 125 members. I put these in the EC section, but maybe NHS and SHH don't do anything at some schools, b/c we do a ton? Would it be bad to put those there?</p>
<p>hmmm wat about debate/science awards? if they are not academic then are journalism awards not academic as well (even though there is a class)? are debate awards then different from journalism ones?</p>
<p>bumping. I'm interested in an answer to this as well.</p>
<p>BUMP!!!!!!!</p>
<p>So can someone confirm that as long as you fill in the Common Application Academic Awards/Honors section and send in a detailed activity sheet which would contain your extracurricular awards/sccomplishments, you can pretty much leave this section of the Harvard supplement blank??</p>
<p>bumpppppppppp</p>
<p>evil<em>asian</em>dictator and others, I think that is correct. I can't imagine why one would leave something off the common app and only put it in the Harvard supplement, specially given the common app has that handy little section called Additional Information where they invite you to tell them anything useful that their little boxes didn't ask or didn't fit.
My daughter just referred them back to the common app Add'l Info section for that question.</p>