<p>do sports awards count? or only academic awards?</p>
<p>Academic. Find another place to put sports awards.</p>
<p>actually, i think we decided that in an earlier thread that "scholastic distinctions" don't necessarily have to be academic.....or did i imagine that thread?</p>
<p>You may be right; I don't remember that thread. And you can put your awards wherever you want on your application. I was simply relying on the fact that the generally accepted definition of scholastic is academic. However, I suppose if you use the meaning that scholastic relates to scholars and schools you could include athletic awards. I think there's a better place to put such awards, although I would probably include a "scholar/athlete" award in scholastic achievements.</p>
<p>i thought scholastic just meant related to school. So I thought that interscholastic sports awards would fall under that category. But it seems that that section is more for academic awards</p>
<p>I can't find that thread...</p>
<p>Here's the old thread. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=220244%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=220244</a></p>
<p>Read Mollie's post #7.</p>
<p>The wording seems to have changed since then though...</p>
<p>"List any scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction."</p>
<p>I took off my violin-related award and replaced it with National Merit Semifinalist after reading the "scholastic" part. It would be nice if I could put that back on there though. NMS is pretty meaningless to me compared with all the other things on the list, international/national competitions, which I actually worked for.</p>
<p>hmmm, i still feel if it's important to you, you should put it. It IS a "distinction", and in my eyes, scholastic only refers to anything related to scool. Maybe I'm saying this because I havent won many/any academic awards, but that's just how I feel. anyone from MIT wanna try to clarify?</p>
<p>There's some info in Matt's blog here about this, but it doesn't specifically address the "sports" question. <a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/october_questions_omnibus_1.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/october_questions_omnibus_1.shtml</a></p>
<p>I think there's no right or wrong answer here. Include whatever you think makes you distinctive and what you want MIT to know.</p>
<p>Put it on there...colleges probably get tons of kids who put non-academic awards on there. And where else are you supposed to put this stuff? It's the best place. Even if it's not totally supposed to be there, you still achieve the end goal of informing admissions people of your accomplishments. Just do it.</p>