<p>Okay, so I've been searching for the last hour for answers to my questions with no luck. I keep finding that this site says this but then this site says this...</p>
<p>So what exactly is the difference between scholastic and nonscholastic?</p>
<p>Also, if it asks when physics was taken or chemistry was taken, what if you took more than one level, like regular and AP? Which year do you say you took it? The first year you took it or the most recent?</p>
<p>This is why you can contact them for additional information. They’re actually very helpful. But for your first question, how about a definition of the word?</p>
<p>scholastic (skə-lăs’tĭk) - of or relating to schools; academic.</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. This seems to be causing a lot of confusion.</p>
<p>MIT will see your transcript, so don’t get hung up on the question about when you took the sciences. Just put down the first year you took each of them; it’s important to demonstrate that you’ve taken bio, chem, and physics. That’s all they’re asking for there.</p>
<p>Feel free to come back here with more questions.</p>
<p>They should have just made it non-academic/academic…because scholastic (well I guess academic can too…) can be interperted so many ways. For example, there is already a contradiction in the definition provided by kemcab because
“of or relating to schools” =/ “academic”</p>
<p>Im actually just gonna just split it up academic/non-academic and forget the whole “school related thing” because I dont even know what would be ccnsidered school related. For example, the first part of USNCO is a local test given by a local district…you qualify representing your high school but you arent taking it for a school club and you dont take it at your high school…so I don’t know what that would be techically considered. I would put it as scholastic just because its academically related. I would put research as scholastic too even though that has nothing to do with your HS.</p>
<p>Its not a big deal (they arent gonna reject you because you messed up classifying an award).</p>
<p>thanks,
so would research go under non-scholastic? it sounds like it would because it is a “scholarly” activity, but it was done outside of school…</p>
<p>i remember that when i filled out the app, i put research under non-scholastic because it was entirely independent of school activities.</p>
<p>Also, for the less than 100 word answers, am I suppose to be direct? Like should I actually say I am most interested in ____ because ____. Or am I suppose to say it in a more creative or narrative way?</p>
<p>this scholastic vs. non-scholastic is a pain…
would community service award, outside-of-school journalism, and research awards be non-scholastic? How about awards from math competitions that have nothing to do with your school (i.e. Math Modeling?).
Also, I think scholastic usually means it should not be ec-related…correct me on this. I though this is where you put stuff like valedictorian, national merit, ap scholar, stud of the month…???</p>