<p>Bumping - there are lots of unresolved questions on this thread, so hopefully someone informed on the nature of these awards will be able to address them!</p>
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<p>I’d like to know this too. Also, how would SIMR and RSI rank?</p>
<p>I’ll be doing weekly updates from now on, every Friday @ 7 P.M, Eastern Standard Time</p>
<p>@JCLove: Feel free to P.M me with specific questions and I will do my best to respond. The real point of this thread was to have a quick list that could become stickied and then have a group of people updating it. [Something that I should really get on, I previously left this thread to die]</p>
<p>@sojuicy: Not to be rude or anything, but did you even look over the list? RSI is clearly shown as a 9. Once again, I’m not trying to be rude, but time is unfortunately limited with me, and its important to be able to find these things. Anyway, SIMR is ** not at the same level of RSI**. RSI is simply the most prestigious summer program in the country and is gushed over on CC for good reason. SIMR on the other hand, is prestigious, but more like a 6, which may seem harsh, but it really is good in comparison to other, very difficult 6’s like an FRC National Championship, which requires you to beat roughly 5000 other teams in order to win. </p>
<p>Also, USAJMO would rank about one level lower than USAMO as they are basically the same, but most colleges weight high school things more than middle school achievements unless they are very significant [Big awards; Google Science Fair, 3M National Science Competition, etc.]</p>
<p>Good Luck on you journey to the both of you!
-Apollo11</p>
<p>No weekly update for this week due to break/no other posts</p>
<p>Surprised this fell to 8th Page. Bumped</p>
<p>Gates millennium scholar and Robertson scholar? </p>
<p>Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using CC</p>
<p>See post #98: national-level quizbowl awards?</p>
<p>Studious said in post #98:</p>
<p>I’m surprised by the absence of quizbowl awards on this list. Qualifying for HSCNT or PACE NSC should be a 5 or so, getting to playoffs a 7, placing top four an 8, and winning a 9.</p>
<p>My Response: I agree that quizbowl awards are suspiciously missing. I will look into adding a few more in. However, winning any quizbowl is not equal to winning ISEF/STS/Seimens-Westinghouse [All of Which are 9’s]. The highest I could rank it would be a 6, which is at the same level of winning a national championship in Robotics, which features roughly 6000 teams attempting to win, and several top schools [My team lost to Stuyvesant]. </p>
<p>So in summarization:
Winning: 6
Placing top 4: 5.5/6
Getting to playoffs: 4/5
Qualifying: 4</p>
<p>Is winning Ocean Science Bowl/Science Bowl a 7? I think it would be more of a 6 (on par with winning at nationals for quiz bowl as Apollo11 said) and qualifying around a 4. The reason is its a team thing so certain members may carry others who are not as talented. In addition, some very good teams may be unable to go to nats. In my osb region, there are 2 schools that, if both made it to nationals, would probably place at least top 8. However, only the winning team qualifies for national so the other team is leftout. btw, what is placing 2nd/3rd for science bowl/osb for regionals?</p>
<p>Anyone want to give their insight for fbla? I’m kind of interested myself.</p>
<p>BUMP
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<p>I was wondering why USAPHO will on par with USACO, which is kinda easy (2 per schools?)… USAPHO actually only have roughly 400 kids (usually less) got qualified as semi. Also, I just looked up, and for 2013 they also have medal thing coming out, honorable mention only given to around 250 kids. Will that mean that USAPHO Honorable Mention is equal to the prestige of USAMO Qualification? What about Bronze/Silver Medals?</p>
<p>thanks for posting this</p>
<p>It was my pleasure</p>
<p>I can’t claim to know much about this, but why is being a D1 athlete a 10?</p>
<p>in terms of the olympiads:
USAMO>>USAPhO=USACO(gold division)>>USABO>>USNCO(chemistry)</p>
<p>@MapleTree7:</p>
<p>Being a Division 1 athlete is the top 3,000 or so out of 500,000+ people. It is very difficult, and there is a reason that athletes get full scholarships for their work.</p>
<p>@ilovediannaagron:</p>
<p>I’d like to think that even making a US Science Team is prestigious</p>
<p>However, my list is off, as my friend recently qualified for the US Geography Team, which is also an International Science Olympiad [iGeo]. The US started this year, so it is pretty recent. There is also the US Earth Science team, but I think there are even more, but the US doesn’t field teams in all of the different competitions</p>
<p>Bump, because my other posts made this one go to the 2nd page!</p>
<p>Also, thanks for the views, this thread is one of the most viewed on all of HSL!</p>
<p>It means a lot to me!</p>
<p>^And i must do it again…</p>
<p>Sigh, my internet is just too fast.</p>
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<p>I can’t help but think there are FAR more D1 athletes than that. If there are 200 D1 football teams (this is a guess…I know the FBS is around 120 teams), and if there are about 20 freshmen on the team, that’s 4,000–just for football! Then, multiple that by 20+ sports, and, well, you get the picture. Being a D1-level athlete is very prestigious, but perhaps the list should be more specific and say something like “D1 athlete at starting status in certain sports” or something.</p>
<p>Perhaps you meant 3,000 out of 500,000 in a specific sport. Actually, that is probably what you meant. It should still stay at a 10 (maybe depending on sport or A vs. AA it could be different).</p>
<p>Where would HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America) be placed on the list. What about competing or winning in State or Nationals for HOSA? Also, would the Girl Scout Gold Award be placed at the same level as Eagle Scout?</p>
<p>Where would a US patent go for a science?</p>