Where do I put research for a class on the common app?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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Hi all!

I go to a STEM magnet high school where each student conducts their own two-year research experiments from junior to senior year. We have a lot of different equipment and labs available at my school to do this. It’s called an “independent research project”, but it is also for a class here that we call “Research”. This project takes up many hours a week to work on, and is therefore a huge part of the experience for all students who go here. I’m wondering, since this is for a class, am I not allowed to write this down as an extracurricular on the common app? If not, where should I write about it (say I didn’t want to do an essay about it)?

I also got selected for an “international research collaboration” with students in Korea, so there are four students working on this research project at the moment (the collaboration itself is not for a class). Would this, and only this, enable me to write it as an extracurricular?

Thanks in advance!

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bump, as we are in the same boat.

Additional question along the same line:
What if you received an invitation to present your findings at a conference on the invitation of your mentoring Professor ?