<p>I won an award at a state conference this weekend for being the outstanding speaker of the conference(Kentucky Youth Assembly). Here's the question: Should I contact the colleges that I've applied to tell them this? Is this important enough to tell the colleges?</p>
<p>lol from a prize from kentucky..lol really..haha</p>
<p>It never hurts to have the admissions people know you are thinking about them. Perhaps you could include in a friendly little email like "Here's this award I won this week. Thought you might like to include it in my file. I'm looking forward to my acceptance from <yourschool>!"</yourschool></p>
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<p>I suppose this was written by a ute member of the forum, and I should be all adult and stuff, but I'm going to give in to my first instinct here: </p>
<p>What a maroon.</p>
<p>Well... he can make fun of Kentucky all he wants. But the conference, Kentucky Youth Assembly, is the largest youth and government conference in the United States. 2500 kids participated at the SENIOR level. The award is pretty big because I was invited to the national youth and government conference, CONA (Conference on National Affairs) and only the best delegates from each state are allowed to attend.</p>
<p>Wash Dad, thank you for the helpful response.</p>
<p>sorry that was my stupid cousin posting with my account....***</p>
<p>I wouldn't phrase the e-mail quite like WashDad puts it. "I'm looking forward to acceptance from your school" sounds a bit presumptious. It would turn me off.</p>
<p>Let me suggest an alternative:</p>
<p>E-mail 1 to the ad. officer specifically assigned to YOUR area:</p>
<p>Dear xx,</p>
<p>My name is xx and I've applied to attend [name of school] for the fall, 2007 semester/quarter. I recently won a statewide award. Are you interested in knowing about things like this? If so, I'd be happy to send you details.</p>
<p>Thank you very much,</p>
<p>[name]</p>
<p>You will almost certainly get an affirmative reply. THEN send info on the award along with anything the ad. officer may want to know. Example:</p>
<p>Dear xx:</p>
<p>Thank you for your interest. I recently won the xx award. You probably already know this, but there were 2500 attendees at this conference. I feel honored to be recongized from such a large group.</p>
<p>Thanks again,</p>
<p>xx</p>
<p>Now, by doing it this way, you get a chance to get your name in front of the ad. officer TWICE and form a relationship. You also ensure that he/she will actually SEE it. A lot of this stuff just goes to the file and, in soime cases, is never reviewed.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks Tarhunt! That was great.</p>
<p>Actually, I have to disagree with e-mail. It's less likely that it will be printed and put into your file, since e-mail is more often used for questions. I would send it by snail mail, which would then easily be put in your file along will all the other written material they get.</p>
<p>Or, if you do want to send by e-mail, then follow up by snail mail.</p>
<p>something similar happened to me, I was featured in the paper (relevant, to my app, i swear!) I sent a copy up to the admissions office with a cover letter explaining what it was.</p>
<p>snail mail seems the way to go.</p>
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<p>I wouldn't either, for that matter. It was not meant to be used verbatim.</p>