Awards?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hey</p>

<p>I have a bit of a dilemma. My school does not offer any awards or such that are worth mentioning. most are for most improved and such, and since I was never had a huge grade jump, I am not eligible. </p>

<p>I was wondering if there are any awards or contests for the end of this year early next year which I would be able to put on my resume. I don't really care if it a really small thing or really big, I just want to get a certificate in the mail and be able to write it down. </p>

<p>I know about the AMC and Intel, and I did not qualify for National Merit.</p>

<p>Just a example of my stats:
101 weighted average
8 AP classes
2140SAt
~31 act</p>

<p>I would really like to win any awards, please help me.</p>

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<p>You are taking 8 AP classes in a year ? It's amazing.</p>

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<p>US</a> Physics Olympiad, US</a> Chem Olympiad, [National</a> AP Scholar<a href="good%20for%20people%20like%20you%20who%20take%20lots%20of%20AP%20tests">/url</a>, [url=<a href="http://sciserv.org/isef/%5DISEF%5B/url"&gt;http://sciserv.org/isef/]ISEF[/url&lt;/a&gt;] (distinct from Intel), [url=<a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm%5DSiemens%5B/url"&gt;http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm]Siemens[/url&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/p>

<p>There's also this thread from way back:
[url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/302001-list-top-prestigious-awards.html%5DList"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/302001-list-top-prestigious-awards.html]List&lt;/a> of Top, Prestigious Awards](<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/scholarawards.html%5DNational"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/scholarawards.html)&lt;/p>

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<p>
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I would really like to win any awards, please help me.

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LMAO, this strikes me as funny.</p>

<p>you can't do the ones fizix listed anymore, too late.
Local math and writing awards?
State math and science stuff?</p>

<p>Get your teacher to nominate you for these:
UAS</a> Members
Bausch</a> & Lomb: Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award and Scholarship</p>

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<p>^Wow thanks for the input. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Are there any non-science awards that one can be nominated for? As in, something in the humanities?</p>

<p>{Because I suck at mathematics and science} ;)</p>

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<p>^Agreed I am also going to try and get my teachers to nominate me for the awards above.</p>

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<p>Bump anyone with anymore awards that can be applied for before end of this year? please help me...</p>

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<p>bump c'mon guys I need help...</p>

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<p>arrghhh...same problem here. maybe u can go to fastweb.com to find scholarships and competitions in many things you could qualify for.</p>

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<p>well, I am not really looking for scholarships, just for like awards. I do use fastweb though.</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/302001-list-top-prestigious-awards.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/302001-list-top-prestigious-awards.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Honestly your best bet.... as someone had just mentioned above. Also, i hope you know what awards you're aiming for. Aim for the awards that are with subjects you're interested in. Many awards such as National Merit Finals, or Presidential Scholar Canditate come from simply having a good PSAT / SAT score, and good grades. Also, that's where many silly but highly overrated awards such as good citizen award, or national honor roll, or book awards, and random "honors" awards from places i've never heard of come in. Are those the awards you're aiming for since you've seen them all over CC?</p>

<p>Also, you don't have to get awards. You can do a service project, or something related to that, or start your own business.</p>

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<p>Yes. I have seen in all the chance threads kids with awards that literally take up the whole page. Considering I have NONE, I think I will be at a disadvantage. Could you guys tell me where I can get some of those book awards, good citizen awards, or those "random" honors awards?</p>

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<p>Come on, someone must know something about those awards...</p>

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<p>Go do research instead. It's funner and you can do it over the summer. (There are lots of threads on it too, search around.)</p>

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<p>^I already have a research position for over this summer, but does that qualify as a award or something?</p>

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<p>No. But it can get you a journal paper, which is a massive hook for college. Well, if you're really lucky.</p>

<p>And anyway you should get a good letter of recommendation out of it. Research really makes a big difference.</p>

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<p>What do you mean by a journal paper? I'm sorry if this sounds stupid.</p>

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<p>so scientists have these things called papers, which are really technical documents where they publish their findings. papers are hosted and published by "journals" (e.g. Nature[/url</a>], [url=<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/%5DScience%5B/url%5D">http://www.sciencemag.org/]Science</a>). if you get a "journal paper" it means you managed to get your name listed as one of the authors on a paper in a journal.</p>

<p>it's considered pretty amazing for even a grad school applicant to have a journal paper (because it means you did actual work and actually made a contribution to the hallowed halls of science). so of course it's even more amazing if you're still in high school. and you should probably know papers are like the bread and butter of grad students/other people in academia. in high school your success is measured by grades; in grad school it's how many papers you have. your papers determine your reputation and papers and authorship are usually at the forefront of a grad student's mind...but i'm just ranting now.</p>

<p>obviously different journals have different levels of prestige (and your position in the author list matters a lot too, but only if you're first or last author), but that's a whole different story entirely. if you want to know more about academia you should really ask the people at phdcomics.com, they have forums there for grad students and they're all keenly aware of such issues.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know of any awards that you don't recieve through school? Something that deals with essays or community service from other companies? If you do, please post a Link or give info.</p>