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Honorary Application or Professional?

I applied to a 8 week summer cancer research internship at Northwestern and was accepted (programming and working in the data science department) but I'm not sure if it falls under professional application or honorary application when ranking my extracurriculars.

I am asking if it is honorary because Northwestern made the application available only to AP Seminar students since we are more proficient in research based projects. To be part of AP Seminar, you need to have an A or B in both English and Social Science classes during sophomore year. I am unsure if they offered the application to other schools but they did offer it to mine because we are 1 of 15 schools in the entire city of Chicago to have the AP Capstone program and 1 of 11 selective enrollment high schools (high schools with an application process that requires exams and grades from 7th grade year, many of these schools have 13% or less acceptance rates).

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