Helpful Ranking of Summer Programs and such

Pre-College Issues Summer Programs
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<p>10------
D1 athlete (Lottery Odds)
----(Highest Level of athletics, best in country/world at your sport, top 500 out of 300000 athletes in your specific sport. Sometimes pays for total tuition.)</p>

<p>IMO/IPHO/ICHO/IBO medals (Given to about 50% of attendees, but 5% of all competitors as it is an international competition with pre-lims)
----(The International Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology Olympiad [Olympics for science]. Top 4 in America go here, crazy hard [10,000 apply in America] and prestigious in the order of Math, Bio, Chem, Physics. There is a thread to prepare for these and is the "easiest" of the 10's. Also, use Wikipedia. Is the continuation of a USAMO, USABO, USACO, USAPO etc. science olympiad)</p>

<p>Intel STS (top 10) (10 students – open only to seniors)[ ]Home - Society for Science & the Public)
-Have to do research, usually college grad level</p>

<p>Siemens National Winner/National Finalists (20 winners – including teams; [<a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm]&lt;/a&gt;)
-same as intel ISEF.</p>

<p>ISEF top 3 Grand Prize (three – open to all HS students/international; []Home - Society for Science & the Public)
-A Science and Engineering competition to solve problems, literally millions of students from around the world try to make it to the top, 1600 make it to the finals - extremely strong competitors</p>

<p>Published in Nature or Science
-A research paper. Not a competition, but very prestigious magazines like Nature and Science don't publish high-school work often.</p>

<p>9 - </p>

<p>Siemens Westinghouse (finalists app. 100; [<a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/po...iemens_rfs.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.siemens-foundation.org/po...iemens_rfs.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>MOP</p>

<p>Intel Finalist (40, including the top 10 [above])</p>

<p>NFL Nationals winner (speech and debate)(1 winner; []National Forensic League, Speech & Debate Honor Society - National tournament)</p>

<p>RSI (75 accepted [<a href="http://www-math.mit.edu/news/summer/rsi.html%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www-math.mit.edu/news/summer/rsi.html]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>8 – </p>

<p>TASP (64 accepted into program;
-[<a href="http://www.tellurideassociation.org/%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.tellurideassociation.org/]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>USPhO/USChO/USABO/USACO national finalist (20 per organization; check wiki on international science olympiads to see them all; i.e Linguistics, Comp Sci etc. +details)</p>

<p>Siemens Semi-finalists
-(approx. 320 [<a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/po....pdf%5D%5B/url"&gt;http://www.siemens-foundation.org/po....pdf][/url&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p>

<p>ISEF(1-4 places)
(ISEF approx. 400 of which 34 finished first; []Home - Society for Science & the Public)</p>

<p>Intel semifinalist (300 students;[]Home - Society for Science & the Public)</p>

<p>Running your own <em>successful</em> business</p>

<p>AMC Perfect Score
(app. 10; [<a href="http://amc.maa.org/amc1012/2011/stat...teStats.shtml%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://amc.maa.org/amc1012/2011/stat...teStats.shtml]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>Presidential Scholar including Arts
(141 students; [<a href="http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/index.html%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/index.html]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>Davidson Fellow (Seimens/Intel little brother)
(open to all HS students; 18 awarded in 2011 [<a href="http://www.davidsongifted.org//fello...2011_436.aspx%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.davidsongifted.org//fello...2011_436.aspx]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medal Award
(approx. 300 out of 200,000 submissions (including middle school submissions))</p>

<p>State AP Scholar
(102 awarded [as junior or even sophomore, requires about 15-20 AP’s that average a 4-5])</p>

<p>Google Code Jam, (Code Jam features pro coders along with amateurs )
Google Science Fair
(1 winner science fair), <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/events...inalists.html%5D%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.google.com/intl/en/events...inalists.html]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>7 - </p>

<p>Selective summer programs or competitions, such as SSP (72 students, SSP - Summer Science Program), Clark Summer Program, YESS, NIH Research, and MITES.
USAMO qualification (270 students)</p>

<p>ARML Tiebreaker Round / Top Team (The Official American Regions Mathematics League Web Site)</p>

<p>Scholastic Art & Writing National Silver Medal Award (approx. 1200 HS students)</p>

<p>NFL Nationals qualifier (speech and debate)</p>

<p>Congressional Award Gold Medalist (Congressional Award: Program Requirements)
USAMTS Gold Medal</p>

<p>Science Bowl/Ocean Science Bowl/NAQT winners</p>

<p>ISEF finalist (approx. 1600 HS students [international])</p>

<p>Google Science Fair Finalist (approx. 80 HS students [international])</p>

<p>6 - </p>

<p>USPhO/USChO/USABO/USACO semifinalist, </p>

<p>Science Olympiad National medals, </p>

<p>Congressional Award Silver Medalist USAMTS Silver, </p>

<p>First Robotics National Championship, </p>

<p>State Athletic Championship (Texas, California, etc.), </p>

<p>5-- </p>

<p>National Latin Convention 1st Places Academic Contests, All-Eastern/all-regional music, National History Day winner, AIME qualification, Science Bowl national qualification, National AP Scholar (as a junior or sophomore)</p>

<p>4- </p>

<p>Perfect Score (Multiple Years) on National Latin Exam, or other languages, some state awards (all-state music, etc), Science Olympiad state medals (depending on what state you're from), National History Day, JETS TEAMS National Finalist or Regional winner, MUN Gavel, AMC 10/12 school winner, Teen Jeopardy, Eagle Scout, National Merit, Toshiba ExploraVision</p>

<p>3 - </p>

<p>All-County music, winning at local/regional science fairs, Rensselaer Medalist, State Science Fair, City Athletics Champion (If city is >100,000)
President's Service Award</p>

<p>2 - </p>

<p>Bank of America Awards, most local awards/trophies (art, music, community - although they will say something about your character), Essay Contests, State History Day</p>

<p>1 - </p>

<p>National Honor Society, Beta Club, School Departmental Awards, School Honor Roll, Key Club, CSF, Interact Club</p>

<p>0 - </p>

<p>Who's Who, National Honor Roll, National Society of High School Scholars</p>

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<p>10 being the most prestigious, correct?</p>

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<p>Yes 10 is the highest. </p>

<p>Also, the other non-summer programs are thrown in to show some awards that you can earn and to give perspective.</p>

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<p>Not sure how far up this would be, but qualifying for the TOC in debate is definitely pretty good.</p>

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<p>** Anyone who knows of any good programs or awards should definitely copy and paste the current list and then add in a change log telling us your changes and your actual changes.**</p>

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<p>Whoa it tesselates!!!11</p>

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<p>Really? Bump</p>

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<p>Curious, did you rank these yourself or find this somewhere?<br>
This is a ranking of "appeal to admissions " rather than “general prestige”, is that right?</p>

<p>Where would one put</p>

<p>Inter/national Brain Bee or Spelling Bee?</p>

<p>Congressional award for youth (medal)?</p>

<p>Commercial acting/music/art success (professional actor, dancer, singer, instrumentalist etc)</p>

<p>…and I guess a list like this can’t take a holistic picture, like of a kid who spends summers pursuing one subject or interest at higher and higher levels…summer pre-college, more structured study-program, independent research, etc?</p>

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<p>This was done by me and other CCers in the High School Life forum based upon a group consensus and was then confirmed by 3 guidance counselors at my school</p>

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<p>Also, this list really isn’t perfect, but I hope to improve it</p>

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<p>Seems very science/math skewed.</p>

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<p>Yeah…I’m not to familiar with any art ones and there are only a few humanities ones.</p>

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<p>Meh, I would expand publishing to scientific journals outside of just Nature and Science (shameless plug for Tissue Engineering), which are near impossible even for professional scientists to publish in. Getting coauthored on anything peer-reviewed as a high school student is big (undergraduate and high school journals maybe not so much, but still).</p>

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<p>Would it be impressive if I got past the open exam for all the different olympiads?</p>

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<p>Awesoe programs list thanks!!! :-)</p>

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<p>tasp is 11/10</p>

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<p>What’s so great about TASP? I would put RSI higher on the list than TASP anyday</p>