Award

<p>How much does MIT look at award? How about those students who don't have any national, state, or even city level of award?</p>

<p>Depends on what kind of award you are talking about.
I don't have any international awards, but I do have a "class clown" award. </p>

<p>Besides, if you think about it, there are ~1000 students admitted to MIT each year. I don't think there are enough international, national, and even regional "serious" competitions to make every single admitted student an award-winner.</p>

<p>What do you mean by "serious"? I mean, I went to a science fair some time ago. This fair is affiliated with ISEF (ie sends winners there) but by my estimate at least half the participants won some kind of award.</p>

<p>What did I mean by "serious"? Well, use your best judgement.
Do you consider the awards you mentioned above to be "serious"?
The way I see it, if so many people received them, it wouldn't be nice to put these awards on same level with first place on ISEF...
That's just my opinion</p>

<p>There are actually ~1500 students admitted to MIT each year. :) But that just makes Hriundeli's point stand to a greater degree.</p>

<p>My listed awards on the app were NMSF, all-state choir, "outstanding junior" color guard member, and maybe that I'd placed somethingth in the state in the state test of scholastic achievement in biology. Nothing too "serious".</p>

<p>Oopsie - I wanted it to sound like "thousand students are admitted each year"
He-he...sorry :)
Thanks, Mollie!</p>