<p>Anyone on here do the Academic Decathalon? Is this in anyway impressive if you do well?</p>
<p>Academic</a> Decathlon® : The Premier Scholastic Competition for High School Students</p>
<p>Hmm..I do it. I wouldn't say it's a huge deal unless you 1. go to nationals or 2. place well individually at state.. ; ) I mostly do it for the experience, though we DO have an ongoing underdog challenge to Jefferson HS, which has won State 10+ years in a row...heh</p>
<p>Ya. I'm ust doing it for the fun of it. It just hit me tonight it miht be a good thing for college prep. :)</p>
<p>I've been doing it for about 4 months (started my first year of it after nationals) and it has completely consumed my life. My team is diehard and we study for about 2-3 hours a day and then maybe 4-5 on our own. I do most of it really late at night because I actually have some shape or form of life =o</p>
<p>how do i join it cuz my school sucks and we don't have these kinda things</p>
<p>I think it looks good on apps. My two Silver medals and 2nd place team finnish at California State Finals was one of the few interesting things on my college application and I managed to get into Berkeley, UChicago, Harvard, UCLA....etc.</p>
<p>i don't know.. i placed in a bunch of events at state but like everybody at our school did (and we're not going to nationals either).. acadec doesn't seem that impressive to ME, but i don't spend much time on it.. haha i guess it just depends on how much passion you have for it, like mutant3324...</p>
<p>It only looks good if you manage to do really good, and if you show you actually care about it. No, let me rephrase that. ANYTHING, that you are accomplished and passionate in will be impressive. Colleges do NOT care what you do unless it's some super super rare talent, which very few people have (skydiving, african dancing, playing bassoo,) or a very stupid activity that really doesn't require work. Then, that activity will get a boost over other activities. </p>
<p>Stl2cali:
Colleges don't care WHAT you do as much as they care about how passionate and accomplished you are. If you have a state award in a reasonably competitive activity, it's just as good as state award in academic decathlon. You put as much work as the other guy did. Sure one of the state awards might be a LITTLE better than the other, but the difference will be very little if both are respected and competitive activities.</p>
<p>I do academic quizbowl which is kind of like academic decathelon. My team went to nationals this year so I guess that is something to mention.</p>
<p>White-Rabbit...you're in CA. It's a completely different for CA students to place at State ; )</p>
<p>I used to be doing it just because I wanted to learn about some other subjects that our school doesn't usually teach or i didn't have enough space to take like the Art, Music, and Economic sections. They all seem pretty interesting, but then I quit because its really competitive at our school and we barely missed nationals last year...so then I learned about self-studying AP's!</p>