<p>Well, I'm currently a freshman at high school, and want to start thinking about college stuff early. I would like to go to an ivy league school, with princeton as my first choice, and plan to be a math/science student. </p>
<p>However, I have won some awards from the Scholastic Writing Contest at the national level; Will this help me or hurt me? I'm afraid they will think I'm not serious about math or science (I want to study biotech engineering).</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>HELP</p>
<p>It will show you are balanced! That can never hurt. Now go and get some math/sci awards...you have time.</p>
<p>Writing awards are +++++++++++++++++
Make sure you definitely apply for the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) award during your junior year. I never won any math/science awards, but won NCTE and some other writing awards, + went to TASP (also apply for this in 11th grade - tellurideassociation.org) and I got into Princeton.
As long as you do something very well, be it math, science, writing, viola playing, figure skating, whatever - it really helps.</p>
<p>Yeah I applied as a science person having won NCTE, and I got in. You don't have to commit yourself to one passion...scientists need to have good writing skills anyway. Scholastic is more prestigious than NCTE, if I'm not mistaken. No one says you can't be an engineer and a writer at the same time, especially with the creative writing certificate program, which would allow you to pursue engineering as your major but still get amazing creative writing experience. They like kids who are brilliant in one area but they certainly won't turn away someone who is brilliant in multiple areas.</p>
<p>omg i'm currently stressing over that scholastic thing. gosh good to see another freshman here.</p>
<p>What is NCTE? Can someone point me to some info.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student%5B/url%5D">http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/student</a></p>
<p>I wish I would have known about these things (NCTE, Scholastic, TASPs, etc.) last year...</p>
<p>Ditto that. Especially TASP.</p>
<p>How hard is TASP to get into...btw, I have 800CR, 800W...thankfully SATs aren't on there though...math score is embarrassing....So anyway, how tough is admit rate? RSI is like 4%</p>
<p>TASP has an acceptance rate of about 8%. The application consists of several essays and an interview. It's well worth it if anybody is considering it for next year.</p>
<p>Wow...thanks everyone! You've been really helpful.
^^</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any other writing/English awards or opportunities? I'm interested in entering, I just don't know where to look!</p>
<p>Good site with comprehensive writing competitions info:</p>