Coalition App - Honors and distinctions section question

Gator88NE
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:48:31 +0000

You are allowed to list a maximum of 5 Honors/Distinctions. Don’t worry that you won’t be able to include ALL your honors/distinctions. We are most interested in those that are most meaningful to you so please be selective and choose the 5 honors/distinctions that are most important to YOU

This is just IMHO…

If athletics are an important EC, I would list it (success is always great! and it helps to show a strong level of commitment to her sport). As a general rule, list National awards first, then state level awards, school district/county and finally school level awards. I wouldn’t list all 5 as athletic awards, especially if you have some academic awards, but a few is fine.

UF can infer that a student would be awarded Bright Futures or an award for X number of volunteer hours (from other sections of the app), so I would include other awards, before those (though if you have some slots available, out of the 5, nothing wrong with filling them up with these). However, out of state schools that use the coalition app may not, so more value can be found from adding these for those schools. If your student may be a NMSF, I would list that…

Good Luck!