<p>When do we get these awards? Will it be in time for rising seniors to put them on college apps? I think I made Scholar with Distinction; is this of any use at all on an app to HYPS? I kinda doubt it since there were like 50,000+ last year, but one can hope...</p>
<p>You are correct that there were over 50,000 AP Scholars with Distinction. However, look more closely at the breakdown in the speadsheets on the collegeboard web-site. There were a bit over 7000 juniors who were AP Scholars with Distinction. Not as rare as a 36 on the math section of the ACT but something you definately should list as an accomplishment.</p>
<p>BTW, I expect the numer of AP Scholars with Distinction to rise this year due to the change in rules to get the award and the increase in the number of students taking the tests.</p>
<p>The award is worth listing if you have space on your application. Though the value of all AP awards was somewhat diluted after the change in full/half year courses, they are still a valuable accomplishment. </p>
<p>As for what to write on college applications since official notification of the awards is pretty late in the fall (I know someone will ask): write "Advanced Placement Scholar \ with Distinction \ National \ whatever (expected)"</p>
<p>What do you have to do to get one of these...all 5's?</p>
<p>collegeboard.com/article/0,,150-157-0-2057,00.html</p>
<p>when they give you your Calc BC, they also give an AB subscore. Is this subscore factored into consideration when doing awards? If so, I'd qualify for national AP Scholar which would be cool (but also pointless because i'm going to college in the fall).....but I guess self satisfing.</p>
<p>Eagle, what did the rules change from and to? My understanding is that AP Scholar with distinction is 5 different AP exams, all grades >/= 3, mean grade >/= 3.5. AB and BC Calc are not considered separate subscores...right? What were they before?</p>
<p>QGuru,</p>
<p>Your interpretation of what the awards are now is correct. The older definition was a bit more complicated because some AP tests only counted for 1/2 a test. For example, under the old definition, Micro Economics and Macro Economics each counted as 1/2. So a student could take 5 tests, say Chemistry, US History, Calc AB, MicroEcon and MacroEcon and it would only count as taking 4 tests.</p>
<p>I think the new definition is much simpler to understand. It just may enable more students to gain a certain classification because AP subjects that counted as 1/2 a class before now count as a whole class.</p>
<p>BTW, Calc BC did not count as 2 unless you took 2 separate exams, AB one year and BC the next.</p>
<p>i'm sorry to ask, but i can't seem to open the spreadsheets. I don't have the proper software. Out of curiosity, how many juniors got Natl AP scholar in 2004?</p>
<p>I don't remember the exact number but it is fairly small, I believe less than 1000. I did add up the number of juniors who got AP Scholar with distinction and it was just over 7000.</p>
<p>I suspect the numbers will be up for both this year because of the larger pool of students and the rules change.</p>
<p>ontolome... I estimated it to be about 300 using data from just Ohio... I didn't feel like adding all the states together... I'd say about 6000 seniors, 300 juniors, 30 sophomores... but eagle is right, it will probably be higher this year... like around 500</p>
<p>oh okay thanks :) wow. i heard that under the old rules it was like 80</p>
<p>Cool. My D is an AP scholar with distinction as a junior. I didn't know it was uncommon.</p>
<p>i heard last year around 330-350 juniors got ap national scholar. Of course, the number will increase this year for the class of 2006.</p>
<p>I added up the total AP National Scholars (as juniors) from 2004 and got 383, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>I'm one of about 20-25ish in NJ, according to last year's stats.</p>
<p>when you guys say "as juniors" do you mean they were ap scholars AFTER their junior year AP tests or that they went into their junior year as ap scholars?</p>
<p>I just checked the spreadsheets and after the 02-03 school year, there were 86 juniors who got the National AP Scholar award. After the 03-04 school year, this number jumped to 338 because of the change in the counting method. When I say juniors, I mean students who took AP tests as juniors and received the official award certificate the fall of their senior year (so that it could be included on college applications)</p>
<p>338 or 383?
Do you guys think it's worth putting national AP scholar on Apps? Is it impressive?</p>
<p>definitely worth putting national. I'm just wondering about my (comparatively) measly scholar with distinction</p>
<p>darn, i woulda qualified for the old ap national scholar (half year/full year) requirements too, and i coulda been part of the exclusive 80-90 juniors per year who received it :). o well, hopefully it's still viewed as prestigious by colleges.</p>