My junior student is on a top ranked national varsity Science Olympiad team and has medals from state, national championships, and from numerous major regional and national invitationals (including MIT). He has been on the team for three years and the individual and team medal count at the state, national and regional levels is substantial (dozens). Making it even more complicated is that he’s competed in five different events over the years. I understand he’s not supposed to use the additional info section of the common app for listing awards but the Honors section doesn’t allow him to list his medals and team awards in any sensible or specific way. Nor does the limited space allow him to explain what events he medaled in or the names of many of the prestigious national and regional invites. He has several other awards for activities that aren’t science related and if he were to list all of the Sci Oly medals separated by national/state/regional, it leaves little room for the other meaningful honors. Would an AO be irritated by a bullet point list of the medals, name of competition, and the individual event in the additional info section? How have others handled these types of activities/awards in the common application without using the additional info section?
It’s likely fine but you can easily combine them in a line as well.
Award, in and of themselves, are fluff. It’s what you did to win the award. You can certainly combine in the activities section too.
I doubt, though, an AO will say - they wrote in the additional info section - rejection. So if you want to add context, I do t think it will impact negatively.
But I also think you can condense - five time medalist at Life Scuence Olympiad.
The Common App activities and awards sections have character limits for a reason. If you really feel a bullet point list of every medal won at every level in every category is truly additive to his application, go ahead and use the additional info section. But the time to read each application is limited, and AOs aren’t going to spend a large quantity of time to pore over the details. My advice is to condense as best you can in the allotted space.