honors and awards

[eyelikeeyes]

for my college, they award students with "Provost Honors" (3.5 GPA or higher with at least twelve graded units) for each academic quarter that is qualified. this is similar to honor roll in high school. the honor is only recognized on the transcript.

for optomcas, it only allows the month and year the honor was received. if i received Provost Honors for multiple quarters, then how does that work? would i have to list the same honor, but add different entries to accommodate for the different quarters? b/c that sounds a little redundant..

do any of you have the same issue? any help is appreciated! :]

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[yyk]

My school went by trimesters, and so I did put separate items for each trimester I got awarded. It makes your list of awards look.. longer

 

[Commando303]

I wonder how much this sort of award matters to admissions committees — after all, they don't inform the latter of anything that isn't directly visible on an applicant's transcript. Now, I'm not suggesting such honors ought not to be mentioned on the application — just wondering of how much consequence they are in the selection process.

 

[EyEnStein 07]

Your provost honors..is the same thing as making the Deans List. That just needs to be noted somewhere. Ask those who have made it multiple times on here and see where they put that in.

IM pretty sure by award they mean a certificate or plaque that you get from either a competition or something of that nature.

 

[Commando303]

Exactly — I've made the "Dean's List" several times, and I wondered whether to mention the "recognition" on the OptomCAS application (I eventually flipped a coin, which ordered I do so). This sort of honor isn't actually an "award" of any sort, though — it merely states your G.P.A. is above a certain mark; on the other hand, I'm sure Summa Cum Laude would demand being mentioned, yet it, too, is based merely on "grades."

I suppose there's no harm in citing Dean's-List/Provost-Honors receipts, and if you do so, I guess it's fine to list each, individually — I just don't know it's the sort of thing with which optometry-school admissions boards are concerned.

 

[live2serve]

I sort of took the "less is more" approach with my optomCAS application, just to force a larger emphasis on what I thought was more important. I went to 2 schools throughout my college career, and the school I got my degree from, I graduated summa cum laude. Obviously I made dean's list every semester, but I didn't even put those down on my application, because I didn't want to cloud the category with an overcrowding of minor awards. I think the only other thing I even mentioned in that section of my application was the academic scholarships I received.

Now I just have to wait and see if the optometry schools think that this is the best approach! lol.

 

[EyEnStein 07]

I would just put: "multiple deans list"...

you have to send them your transcript....its fairly obvious which semesters you were on it and which ones you were not.