Academic Honors

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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For the academic honors section on Common App you can only put 5 things and I was wondering which one of these things I should put:

  1. National Honor Society
  2. Selected participant in NJRSF (New Jersey Regional Science Fair)
  3. NJRSF Water Environment Foundation Award/Stockholm Junior Regional Water Prize Award of Excellence (same award but it has two names)
  4. Honor Roll Freshman and Sophomore Year (overall)
  5. High Honor Roll Junior Year (as well as 4th semester freshman and sophomore year)
  6. Waksman Institute Student Scholar (“Provided by Rutgers University, students and their teacher conduct molecular biology and bioinformatic research and have their findings published.”)
  7. Two published DNA clones in NCBI scientific database

All of these options can be included in the descriptions of my activities so they will be on my application regardless but I was wondering what ones stand out the most

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2 & 3 cover the same thing - don’t need to say “selected to participate” since that’s obvious from #3.

4 & 5 - combine.

Now you have 5!