<p>On the MIT app, they seperate the awards into these two categories. </p>
<p>Can someone please define what exactly is the difference?</p>
<p>For example, if I win something related to a club acitivity (like Science Olympiad), but it also encompasses academics (Science Olympiad-chem, physics,...), is that scholastic or nonscholastic? </p>
<p>Sorry if this is an easy question, but I just want to be sure that I don't accidently mess up the categories.</p>
<p>No offense, but isn’t this just splitting hairs? I would assume ‘scholastic’ means everything school/club related whereas nonscholastic doesn’t. Either way both should show passion and interest for something.</p>
<p>Below is how my institution differentiates the two:</p>
<p>The word “scholastic” means “of or related to school.” So if your school has a Model United Nations Club and your participation in that club explains your award in an “international mun simulation,” it would be a scholastic award. If you won an award as editor of your school’s magazine, that is a scholastic award. However, if you created a poetry blog or online literary magazine on your own and that effort netted some sort of recognition, it would constitute a nonscholastic award. If you’ve won local or regional awards through your school’s athletics program, those are scholastic awards; if you’ve won awards by participating in a private sports club, those are nonscholastic awards. The Gold Star Award in Girl Scouts is a nonscholastic award, as is the Eagle Scout Award in Boy Scouts.</p>
<p>MIT didn’t used to discriminate between scholastic and nonscholastic awards on the application. Hope this doesn’t cause a lot of confusion.</p>
<p>Hmmmm…but since there probably will be confusion, perhaps Mollie could get some definitive statement from admissions to post up in the questions thread above. :-)</p>
<p>^ok thanks.</p>
<p>Im glad I asked because I thought that awards like sports awards for school teams (like all-state selection or something) and schools newspapers were nonscholastic, because although they are school related, they arent related to academics.</p>
<p>I also thought that research awards would be scholastic, but according to your definition, I guess that would actually be nonscholastic.</p>
<p>I wish they didnt split it up because that means now I have like an unequal proportion of the two awards, meaning Ill probably have to use the additional space section for scholastic awards and pretty much leave the nonscholastic section blank.</p>
<p>kemcab: yea you are right…I doubt they are going to reject someone if they put a nonscholastic award in the scholastic section, but I just wanted to be sure and not make some mistake because MIT’s app is the first one that I have seen that splits up these two.</p>
<p>Scholastic/Nonscholastic;
For me it means the “part I always left blank”/“my awards” :)</p>