for academic honours... Presidents/Deans list?

[jones3366]

I have a couple things I am struggling with regarding my CV and SOP. If anyone can help I would be very grateful.

1. The first two years of my degree were completed at a university and then I transferred to another school to complete my degree. For those two years I was on either the presidents or deans list. (different semesters) should I list this under academic honors? if so should it be like: Deans list (Sept 2008-December 2008) etc.?

2. When I came to the second university I was in lou of my high GPA I was offered a $2000 presidents entrance scholarship. However, to fulfill certain degree requirements I was forced to take a couple classes from the local college (because the university classes were full) and I therefore wasn't enrolled in enough credits to accept the scholarship. Can I somehow list it as a scholarship i was offered?

3. At my first school because of my good grades i was offered a position working for the university as a tutor. i did a couple days of paid training but never ended up tutoring anyone. Can i list that as a job I had? I had an employee number, received a paycheck and T4, but never actually did any tutoring....

4. Last question: at the university I attend the GPA conversion is 80-85 = 3.7. I will be evaluated solely on my last 60 credits which I calculated to be precisely 79.8 Is that then 80% and thus 3.7 or must I say 3.1?

If anyone can answer any of these questions I would be eternally thankful!

[kaykaykay]

ok I cannot answer all your questions but I would say you can list the fellowship, just put declined after it. I would say you cannot list the tutoring as a job if you did not tutor, but you can list that you have the training... but this is onluy my opinion. I am not quite understanding the GPA question. just put 79.5% or just calculate that on a 4.0 scale. If you did not attend a US university I think you have to give the results in their original units anyway.

[Bukharan]

I agree with what kalapocska said.

1. Yes, list like you said.

2. You can list it with 'offered' or 'declined' after it.

3. No, I wouldn't list that job.

4. The GPA conversion is a very tricky thing.

I would not risk it and put it exactly as you got it - 79.8. You could perhaps also say how it corresponds to the rest of your class: top 5% of the class, top 10% etc.

[jones3366]

Thank you both for your response. Everything you said was what I was suspecting so thanks for confirming it for me. I am still a bit leery about listing the scholarship because the CV form we fill out says: Academic awards received. I suppose if I didn't accept it then technically it wasn't received... so I suppose I should just list it as offered. Oh its all so tricky....