<p>College applications such as the UC application ask for honors and awards you have received. Honor roll and principal's honor roll are directly tied to your grades so is it pointless to put them down, especially since nearly every other applicant will also have them?</p>
<p>Put them down. It won't take more 10 seconds to type those in.
It'll definitely not hurt you.</p>
<p>Well, another thing is, they ask you put down your most important awards and you actually only get to put a few. So I'm guessing if you have other awards, these are the least important?</p>
<p>tell me all the awards you've received so i can determine whether it's worthwhile to list the honor roll or not.</p>
<p>student of the month
who's who among american high school students
principal's honor rolll x1
honor roll x2</p>
<p>The first two are pretty light-weight, so don't list them. You yourself admitted that the last two are insignificant and simply reflect the GPA.</p>
<p>Only list the last two, what they are looking for is stuff like AP Scholar, CSF Gold Seal Bearer, etc. if you have any of that it would be above the principals honor roll and honor roll</p>
<p>Could I list that I was commended for National Merit?</p>
<p>Commended does not reflect a fantastic score. Don't list it if you're running out of room.</p>
<p>Oh. And Who's Who is worthless. Don't list it.</p>
<p>Commended indicates that your PSAT was about in the top 5% of college bound juniors. For most colleges, being commended is a big deal. Some colleges even give merit aid for commended students. Check Google or check CC's archives to find out some. I remember that St. Olaf gives about $1,500 or so to commended students.</p>
<p>It's only the very top colleges -- places like HPYS -- that aren't fazed by commended or even National Merit because they get so many applicants those honors.</p>
<p>well according Who's Who website:</p>
<p>"We routinely survey colleges on their views about Who's Who. Here's what they say: 93% equate Who's Who with other honors and awards (5% are open admissions institutions with minimal entrance requirements) and 95% use Who's Who and The College Referral Service in their recruitment programs."</p>
<p>That's nice to hear--and luckily I'm not trying for HYPS (why pay so much for undergrad at a place that could take or leave you?), so maybe it'll be at least slightly noted. :)</p>
<p>w/e is on who's who site is bs, EVERYONE gets in</p>
<p>student of the month (worthless)
who's who among american high school students (worthless)
principal's honor rolll x1 (just means you have high GPA, worthless)
honor roll x2 (worthless)</p>
<p>sorry, but it's the truth</p>
<p>those awards are nothing more than those "no tardy and absence" awards</p>
<p>what about for those that don't have any awards :(</p>