<p>I know that most of the time these awards are insignificant for admissions (usually because most get them after they've been admitted somewhere) -- but do they help in securing scholarships? Summer jobs? Even after you get an undergraduate degree and begin crafting a professional resume?</p>
<p>heh i'm going to be ap scholar w/ distinction and i'm a jr-is that good?</p>
<p>a professional resume? why would a somewhat prestigious award you received 10 years ago in high school matter to an employer?</p>
<p>Well, it would be four years actually ... (I meant your first resume after getting a degree, not after completing graduate school ;)). </p>
<p>I'm not sure it would even be a big tipping factor, but would it be of significant utiliy if you were applying to internships (while still an undergraduate) or applying for a temporary job between graduation and one that better uses your degree?</p>
<p>(If you applied to be a manager of a McDonalds branch sometime over the summer between college semesters, would they care that you got a 5 in AP Microeconomics or were an AP state scholar?)</p>
<p>I don't believe it is. I applied/got a major scholarship. But, I believe, unless this is your only award, you need much more to get one. On the job front, I think experience/skills/letters are more important. If you got nothing, maybe it would help. But, don't expect much.</p>
<p>Say I was a National AP Scholar by my junior year. Would that matter in college admissions? Can one even get these awards in junior year, are are they all awarded as seniors?</p>
<p>Proletariat, it would definitely depend on who you're competing against. But, that would definitely be impressive. I think you have to be a senior to get the National AP Scholar award. But, you can get other AP awards as a junior. I got one last summer so don't worry.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks! I think I'll be an AP Scholar w/Distinction by the end of this year.</p>
<p>I can't imagine that any of these awards would help once you're actually in college, though...maybe I'm wrong.</p>
<p>I agree. Seriously, after I got that award and put it on my app, it went into the paper file. Never to be looked at since...</p>
<p>I seriously doubt that it will help me in fall and beyond.</p>
<p>National AP Scholar</p>
<p>Granted to students in the United States who receive an average grade of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that you don't have to be a senior.</p>
<p>Yeah, I've taken 3 ap exams so far [currently sophomore], and I'm taking 7 next year, so I'll be well above the minimum for National AP Scholar.</p>
<p>Oh, yay! Then I can probably be one by end of junior year, and hopefully that will help some in admissions :) Cuz if you get them afterwards I don't see how it matters...</p>
<p>It might help in college admissions; after that, not a soul in the world cares about it.</p>
<p>I graduated high school in 2004, and National AP Scholar is still on my resume, as is National Merit. I have more recent awards, but a lot of people have heard of AP exams and NM. They've been commented on a couple of times at interviews (only for jobs affiliated with a university in some way, but still), so unless I desperately need that line in my awards section for something else, my AP award is staying for now.</p>
<p>And no, you don't have to be a senior for National AP Scholar. I graduated after my 3rd year of high school, but the College Board didn't know that, and I still qualified. It doesn't matter what year you are if you've met the other requirements.</p>
<p>i got ap scholar w/distinction last year (end of sophomore year) and hopefully will get national scholar this year (end of junior year).</p>
<p>i put scholar w/distinction on all my summer program apps and got rejected from most of them.</p>
<p>so i'd say it doesn't make any difference in the world.</p>
<p>state scholar might be more impressive, but there's no chance i'll get it...i have friends who have taken one more ap than me.</p>
<p>Suppose you go on to get your Ph.D. and you didn't win other awards because you were one of the less impressive students in your undergrad program at Yale and in your doctoral program at Harvard. </p>
<p>Now, suppose you are completing your first grant application. On the application, there is a section entitled "Honors and Awards." You could put "National AP Scholar" in that block on your grant proposal.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone will care. I certainly won't. It's just another ego-petting thing.</p>