<p>If I’ve won awards or recognition certificates for a non-profit organization I started, would I put them down on “additional info” on the commonapp? or maybe just the awards section? or maybe on the yale supplement?</p>
<p>Put them in awards. Though if it was the organization that won and not you you might want to pu tthem in the activities section where they ask for positions, awards etc</p>
<p>I would put them in “Awards” if you have the room and you consider them important. I feel like the “Additional Info” section doesn’t get as much attention as the “awards” area, but that might just be my paranoia.</p>
<p>yeah I would definitely prefer to put them in “awards” but aren’t they supposed to be awards in the academic field?</p>
<p>You are correct - the Common App “awards” section specifies academic awards. Hence, you have two options:
- You can try to mention your service awards in the very brief descriptions you provide in your EC list.
- You can include them as “additional info”</p>
<p>Of the two, I’d recommend the latter. More precisely I suggest you come up with a “resume” arranged to give a more coherent picture of your life outside of class, including the recognition you have received. Try to keep it to one page and make sure it is a value-add to your application. Ideally it will give the reader a view of you not possible in the limited list of EC’s the Common App permits. I don’t think you have to worry about it getting overlooked; you will see that both when viewed on-line and when printed on paper your additional page will have the same “presence” as other pages of your application and is just as apt to be noticed.</p>