Will this "Award" make me look worse?

fallenchemist
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:17:08 +0000

Agreed. IMO you are overthinking this, and maybe you don’t quite have a feel for how admissions looks at these things. Which is understandable. With thousands of applications to review, they just are not scrutinizing your application to the extent you seem to think they might. Just let them know that you won the silvers in the one competition, the national title in the other competition, and leave it at that. Whatever details you leave to them to fill in, they will put the best spin on them. It is in their nature.