<p>Ok, so I won the Rensselaer Medal last year, but should I even mention this on my resume? Does anyone care other than RPI itself?</p>
<p>It's a recognition by your High School's Faculty that you are an outstanding student in Math and Science. I think you should mention it, same as any other recognition you achieve.</p>
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Rensselaer Medal Program</p>
<p>For more than 85 years, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in conjunction with high schools around the world, has awarded the Rensselaer Medal. This is awarded to promising secondary school juniors who have distinguished themselves in mathematics and science. The responsibility for selecting the Rensselaer Medalist belongs to faculty and staff within the participating secondary school.
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<p>Would the same apply to the U of Rochester "Xerox Award for Innovation and Information Technology"? I also thought only Rochester cared about it but hey, why not!</p>
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<p>The University of Rochester Awards are like the RPI Medal, a way for a High School to recognize some of their students. The U of Rochester awards also have scholarships associated with them if you are accepted and attend the University.
Link <a href="http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/apply/corporate/details.shtm#xrx%5B/url%5D">http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/apply/corporate/details.shtm#xrx</a></p>
<p>When you are putting togeather your resume you should rank your accomplishments in order of importance. </p>
<p>National Awards / State Awards / Regional Awards / High School Awards.
and more recent achievements being more prominent.</p>
<p>There are many "College Book Awards" that fall into a similar catagory, HS Junior year recipients being selected by HS Faculty and one purpose of the award being to increase talented students interest in applying to the College.</p>
<p>Thanks, we'll put it further down on the list when there is room. Somehow I doubt Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, MIT, or Penn will give it any importance. Rochester did send a nice little plastic trophy, though!</p>
<p>By the way, how do I get the star off my posts? I don't even know how it got on in the first place!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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Somehow I doubt Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, MIT, or Penn will give it any importance. Rochester did send a nice little plastic trophy, though!
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<p>If you got an award that was sponsored by a world wide company,why would you think that Stanford, CM or MIT would not give it much importance when Xerox hires graduates of those schools.</p>
<p>The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, conducts pioneering interdisciplinary research in physical, computational, and social sciences. Building on our three-decade tradition of innovation, PARC works with Xerox and other strategic partners to commercialize technologies created by our renowned scientists.
<a href="http://www.parc.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.parc.com/</a></p>
<p>think if you attend rpi, it's worth a dollar amount in scholly. check w/rpi.</p>
<p>My d received U of R Humanities/social sciences (I think they changed the name). We definitely listed it as an academic honor. Schools are very familiar with Bausch & Lomb, RPI and other like awards. They also know that the HS picks the kid, so it implies that the student was one of the best in the school and it also shows that the kid will receive some merit $. from the school. My d applied to CMU and was accepted. She was offered $8000 merit from CMU. My gut feeling is that they offered her the money as they knew she was receiving $ from U of R and they were trying to compete with the U of R offer. Do not underestimate these awards. I think it is an honor to receive them and it may be helpful in obtaining merit money from similar type institutions.</p>
<p>Thanks very much, Marny, that is quite encouraging. If the schools take it seriously so will we. My S really loves technology, computers programming and graphics, etc. so it looks like we should have thanked the GC more! We are really lucky to have excellent, involved counselors at the school.</p>
<p>I just finished my junior year of high school. My school is not a member of the Rensselaer Medal Program. I had to find out about this scholarship on my own. I am strong in math and science and want to be an engineer. Is there a deadline for this scholarship and is it too late to have school select me?</p>
<p>ashweb, my son did not receive the RPI medal his junior year but was still offered $15,000/year from RPI when he applied (same amount as the medal scholarship). They offer a lot of scholarships. <a href="http://admissions.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3&setappvar=page(1%5B/url%5D)">http://admissions.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3&setappvar=page(1)</a></p>
<p>over30, thank for the information. Did your son get a certain scholarship for the $15,000/year?</p>
<p>I can't remember. I'll see if we kept the paperwork. Good luck.</p>