<p>i want to go ivy league or any great schools. do i really need some awards for my extracurricular activity?????? if i really need some.what competition can i do?how can i join some competition? (but definitely not sports @_@)</p>
<p>Awards distinguish you from your peers, thus making your application stand out and in turn, increasing your chances for being accepted.</p>
<p>To add on...
But if you don't have national/international awards, that doesn't mean you are automatically rejected.</p>
<p>I was thinking the same thing.</p>
<p>Although this sounds lazy, I haven't actually had many opportunities to get awards. There's always the "student of the year" award for each grade, which I've won. I've gotten a gold certificate in this random international maths challenge test that we had to take (although something like the top 5% get it, so it's nothing great), but nothing much other than that.</p>
<p>Are there things that I can apply to, as an international student, where there is the opportunity for me to win awards? Where I live, there's not much around where I live that provides those kind of opportunities :/</p>
<p>90% of awards, like 90% of extracurriculars, are bogus and will not help you much</p>
<p>I don't have any awards (erm, that I'm remembering right now), and I got into Bryn Mawr.... not Ivy League or anything, but still good. You'll probably be okay if the rest of your application stands out in some way.</p>
<p>i didn't have any significant awards, and i got into top colleges (like Stanford)</p>
<p>if you can't get get any "major" awards, it's ok! just make sure the rest of your application is very strong.</p>
<p>don't think of your college application as a check list. it's not "this and you'll get in; that and you'll get in." haha, have something quirky, something cool, something that'll get you noticed as a person, rather than just another applicant.</p>
<p>I didn't have too many awards (a few Model UN ones and some state-level ones -- nothing overly significant). Dartmouth '12.</p>
<p>You did Model UN, Taggart? Awesome! I do, too. I'm aiming for Dartmouth '13! How many gavels did you collect by the end of your career? And what high school did you go to?</p>