<p>Are abbreviations acceptable on an application?</p>
<p>For example, I want to say the Board of Education gave me an award, but there isn't enough space on the JHU application...so I used:</p>
<p>BOE award. </p>
<p>Would admissions officers understand the meaning of BOE? I would really appreciate a reply from AdmissionsDaniel.</p>
<p>If Admissions Daniel doesn't chime in in time, this would be my suggestion: abbreviations are okay in some cases, especially when filling in grids etc. with limited space. I wouldn't personally have known what BOE is, unless there was some context and I'm guessing admissions officers might not either. Bd of Ed, though, I think everyone would get if you can fit it.</p>
<p>That's a good suggestion, jmmom. BOE wouldn't mean anything to me, but Bd of Ed easily recognizable.</p>
<p>Really? I only used BOE because it seemed like the common abbreviation (as shown on Wikipedia at least). </p>
<p>I would still like a response from AdmissionsDaniel. I still have time for Early apps...</p>
<p>I'd put BOE* and then go to additional infomation: *blah blah</p>
<p>thats what i did.</p>
<p>there is no additional information section for jhu online apps...i think i put something like board of ed. didn't abbreviate board. btw is an award from teh board of ed considered a city award or just a school award =(...and i didn;t quite get the part where jhu asks us to check all that applies...I mean if the award is accross the nation do we still have to check the city, school, region box? ><</p>
<p>Um yes there is. On page two.</p>
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<p>< i never thought we could clarify our awards section in the additional section i thought that section was used to explain special circumstances. not sure</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if JHU allows this since it's been a while, but consider sending via snail mail a printed list of your accomplishments to be added to your application file.</p>
<p>Yeah I sent a activities resume with my counselor stuff since its required.</p>
<p>jovenes132:
Yes, you may use abbreviations on your application but they need to be abbreviations that can obviously be translated. For instance, all know what SADD stands for, or CTY, NHS, AP, IB, SAT, etc. You may use any commonly used acronymns. </p>
<p>However, I recommend avoiding acronymns that are not used often such as BOE. Personally, if I read BOE on an application I would not initially know what is was. You don't want your reader confused by an acronymn, so usually you should spell everything out. </p>
<p>If you use an abbreviation that might now be well known, then use the additional information section of the application as a key.</p>
<p>darkhope:
A Board of Education award is a school award. And as far as "checking all boxes that apply" -- that is for awards that may be awarded by your school but also awarded at a national level. Many awards apply to various areas and we want to know that.</p>
<p>Also, the additional information section can be used for anything. There are no rules to that section.</p>
also BOE could stand for Board of Equalization, don’t even ask my what they do . i just know i had to appoint some people into those positions at boys state. Haha. well actually some guy on the board quit his job, (i don’t know why he ran in the first place, go figure) and then since I was on the county board of supervisors we got to appoint someone.
@binbin2093 Psst… This happened almost nine years ago…
@OnMyWay2013 should i refrain from commenting on old threads? I feel like there are a lot of unspoken rules or something, i don’t know lol! Everytime I say something or post a thread or report someone, there’s always an issue. if there is like a rules page of what i should and shouldn’t do, please direct me there.
@binbin2093 It’s not wrong; it’s just that if you were trying to give someone advice, they probably don’t need it anymore, and if you were expecting a response, you probably won’t get one. Just like if you tried to continue a real conversation that you had with your friends a month ago that they don’t even remember.
I don’t know if there are all that many rules about posting on CC… The only ones that come to mind are not making multiple posts on the same subject in a short period of time, and showing common courtesy to others.