<p>Is the Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award worth listing on college applications as an achievement?</p>
<p>There are a few older threads about this, but none give a definitive answer.</p>
<p>In my opinion, yes. My daughter listed it on her resume.</p>
<p>I got it but i havent applied for college yet</p>
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<p>I got its counterpart, the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Scholarship Award for Humanities as well as the Harvard Book Award. I’ve been wondering the same things myself.</p>
<p>Why would you not want to list it?</p>
<p>Lol its of no significance. Its just a scholarship. Save the app room for more significant science awards (intel/siemens/ISEF/YES/FIRST/Biogenius/etc.)</p>
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<p>This is for my son. On some applications there is only room for a few items. This is the only thing he has approaching a nationally-recognized award, but since it was awarded by a vote of the school faculty, as opposed to actual competition, we’re not sure if it’s important enough to take the place of an award from a local foreign-language competition (1st place in extemporaneous speaking).</p>
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<p>Lol no its not you shud look it up imho lulz</p>
<p>I think the consensus is that these awards, and book awards, are not something that makes adcoms stand up and shout, “admit this kid!”. But I can’t see how it would hurt. It shows that your son has won the respect of his teachers, and that they have specifically recognized his talent/aptitude for science. The kid who got that award at our high school is no slouch.</p>
<p>Okay, thank you all for your comments.</p>
<p>DS, the B&L recognition award translated to a $14,000 (2002, 50% tuituon) scholarship to Rochester Institute of Technology. Although he did not attend this school, the award from RIT help him get a another financial review from a competitive school. At a minimum, I figure the B&L award was either worth $56,000 or the new offer from the other school, both a good piece of change.</p>
<p>There are numerous scholarships named Bausch & Lomb something-or-other. I am talking about the Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award. It is not a scholarship. It is awarded to high school Juniors by the University of Rochester on the recommendation of the high school faculty. There is no money involved aside from U or R waiving their application fee.</p>
<p>my son put it on his resume, but if the app asks for ranking in order of importance of his ec/honors, i dont think he is including it.</p>
<h1>11. Yes, I know. Without this award, I don’t think that DS would have applied to RIT. Second thought, it was a good safety school in the fields he wanted to concentrate. I will say that it was hard to say goodbye to what RIToffered, even though we were full pay, retail.</h1>
<p>The Harvard Book, isn’t even a good a read.</p>
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<p>Tell me about it. It’s what I use when I can’t fall asleep at night.</p>
<p>If you are a B&L winner, and choose to attend URochester, you are considered for considerable merit aid.</p>
<p>I see no reason to not include it. It means the student was selected from among students at that high school. </p>
<p>As far as the book award…each school uses different criteria but for example, my D got the Wellesley Book Award in junior year and the criteria for that at our school was for the top junior girl. </p>
<p>These awards were listed on the Activity/Award resume and annotated. </p>
<p>I do not agree with Advanced Lawlz who claims that unless an award is on the level of Intel/Seimens to leave it off. Only on CC would I find such a comment!!! I guess my D should have left off all her sports achievements too because she didn’t win an Olympic medal, ha ha. </p>
<p>The Bausch and Lomb Award and the Book Award were worthy of noting as academic honors/awards. A resume allows one to fit things on and annotate them that the app may not have room for. These awards may not be the highest in the land but at our school, they went to top students. </p>
<p>Oh, and for advanced Lawlz…for your information, LOTS of kids get into top schools without Intel/Siemens, etc. (my kid had never heard of those and students in our region do not participate in them either) but she was a top student including in science/math and she got into very good schools anyway (ie., Brown, Penn, and waitlist at Princeton) and is in grad school at MIT. Ya know, the mentality that only a national award will get you in or is worth mentioning is not on the mark. An abundance of achievements of other sorts are definitely worth mentioning, including the B and L Honorary Science Award as the faculty selects a top student usually to receive it.</p>
<p>I also agree with another poster that if you are a winner of this award, you are eligible for merit scholarships at U of Rochester (my D did not choose to apply, however).</p>
<p>Rather than start a new thread, I’ll just post my next question here.</p>
<p>What about AP awards, such as AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, etc.?</p>
<p>These are what I call meta-awards, awards that are not achievements in themselves, but recognition of other achievements. That is, the achievement is good scores on AP exams; the AP Scholar award therefore seems redundant, so is it worth putting on an application?</p>
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<p>This is complete nonsense. </p>
<p>A book award, a scholarship, or anything of that nature tells colleges that you are considered among the top students in your class by the faculty at your school.</p>
<p>Yes, it will not get you in by itself. But it is certainly something that you should mention! </p>
<p>If there isn’t enough room on the Common App for all of your awards and/or ECs, write a resume and send it as a supporting document.</p>
<p>Regarding AP exams, the same thing holds true. List the AP exams and scores on the Common App in the awards area, according to instruction. List them on a resume if you send one. Include the “meta” awards. Why in doG’s name would you not? Ad Comms have maybe 5-10 minutes to read each application. Do you seriously think that they have time to figure out, “Oh, this kid must have qualified for AP Scholar with Distinction and is just being modest to not mention it.”? Tell them, for chrissakes. Make it easy for them to admit you.</p>
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<p>Now *that’s *straight shootin’. :)</p>
<p>Lol, no one really cares that you are “among” the top students in your class, when you could be “among” the top students in the nation.</p>