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Hello all,
I recently got notified by the head of my department that I will be receiving a departmental award at my undergraduate institution and will be recognized at a spring awards ceremony. From what I understand, these are named awards and given out only to ~10 students out of the 1,000 or so in the LAS college. I was planning on sending an update letter to a few of my schools to inform them of fall grades and a research presentation I gave at an international research conference last fall, but I’m wondering whether to include the award I will be receiving. The reason for the struggle is that I do not know the specific award I will be receiving and the ceremony is not until mid-April (likely after the admissions committees may make a decision on waitlist/accept/reject). Given the unknown nature of the award, do you think that this warrants inclusion in an update letter or not? Besides managing deans list over a couple semesters I don’t have any awards or special recognitions in my application so the fact that I’m receiving something might round out my application a bit. Thanks.
I recently got notified by the head of my department that I will be receiving a departmental award at my undergraduate institution and will be recognized at a spring awards ceremony. From what I understand, these are named awards and given out only to ~10 students out of the 1,000 or so in the LAS college. I was planning on sending an update letter to a few of my schools to inform them of fall grades and a research presentation I gave at an international research conference last fall, but I’m wondering whether to include the award I will be receiving. The reason for the struggle is that I do not know the specific award I will be receiving and the ceremony is not until mid-April (likely after the admissions committees may make a decision on waitlist/accept/reject). Given the unknown nature of the award, do you think that this warrants inclusion in an update letter or not? Besides managing deans list over a couple semesters I don’t have any awards or special recognitions in my application so the fact that I’m receiving something might round out my application a bit. Thanks.