I have enough awards but my biggest awards all come from Technology Student Association. Would it be bad to have numerous awards from the same club in the honors section? I am majoring in computer engineering if that matters.
I need to choose 5 out of the following:
2nd place TSA State Leadership Conference (10th/11th grade)
3rd place TSA State Technology on Essays (10th grade)
2nd place TSA State Music production (10th grade)
1st place TSA Regional Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (11th grade)
4th place FBLA Regional Cybersecurity
1st team all-division Cross Country (10th and 11th grade)
Math School Team MVP (9th and 11th grade)
Outstanding Academic Achievement (9th,10th,11th grade)
AP Scholar
1000+ Activity Point Club
You could combine all your TSA awards into one, then describe each of them.
AP Scholar is pretty much a participation award.
Some people list the awards from international-national-state-local-high school. Other list the awards in the order of personal importance and meaning. There is no wrong way; it comes down to the picture you are trying to paint with your application.
I don’t think I can combine them on Common App Honors section because I have to list what grades I got them in, and combining would make that confusing since some awards I got in different grades. Also, there is only a section to list the title of the award rather than really describe it. I combined the awards in my Extra Curricular section too so its not like they will go completely unnoticed but I’m trying to decide which are my top 5.
I was thinking about doing
1)2nd place TSA State Leadership Conference (10th/11th grade)
2)3rd place TSA State Technology on Essays (10th grade)
3)4th place FBLA Regional Cybersecurity
4)Outstanding Academic Achievement (9th,10th,11th grade) or 1000+ Activity points
5)Math School Team MVP (9th and 11th grade)
But I’d be willing to replace the Math Team Mvp with 1st place TSA Regional Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (11th grade) since it more so related to my major and is a regional award, but the fact that I already listed 2 state-level TSA Awards out of the 5 possible worries me for some reason. Basically I’m looking for if it ok to list a ton of awards from the same club in the honors section of common app.