Changes to Siemens Awards for AP

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>The Siemens program now recognizes two students in each of 50 states rather than four students in each of six College Board regions. The state awards will be $2000 rather than $3000. The new scheme also appears to recognize physics C mechanics and E&M as separate exams, bringing to eight total number of AP target exams to eight.</p>

<p>Here is the text and the link:
"Scholarships in the amount of $2000 are awarded to students from each of the 50 states who have earned the greatest number of AP grades of 5 in eight exams. Each state potentially has two winners, one male and one female. Two additional national winners (one male, one female) are awarded a $5000 college scholarship."
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/scholarships-and-aid/23639.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/scholarships-and-aid/23639.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>100 students instead of 24? That's a significant increase. Yay.</p>

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<p>I might go for that next year. I already have... 3 of the exams! Haha.</p>

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<p>Siemens will be publishing a list of winners in Monday's USA Today.</p>

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<p>No! Nonononono. Blah.</p>

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<p>What is the usual amount of 5's for the winners?</p>

<p>5?6?</p>

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<p>Yeah right. At least 10+ and up to 13,14,15.</p>

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<p>It's based on a set of 8 AP math/science tests: Calculus BC, Statistics, Physics C Mechanics, Physics C E&M, Chemistry, Computer Science AB, Environmental Science, and Biology. The award is first determined by the number of 5s among these 8 tests, and then by the actual percentile scores on the tests (to break ties - apparently the College Board has these lying around somewhere, even though we haven't seen them). I had 5s on all 8, although for a lot of states it's probably possible to win with fewer.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/news/2006SiemensAPAwards.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.siemens-foundation.org/news/2006SiemensAPAwards.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>