<p>My school does'nt award any of these awards. Do you it's okay to persuade my school's counselor/principal to do so?</p>
<p>I think it's perfectly OK to at least ask about them.</p>
<p>I had to pester my school for weeks in order to get it to sign up for the medal, and due to my school's ineptitude, they didn't finish the paperwork for the RPI medal until a few hours before it was due. So go ahead and force em to do it, you get more scholarships, and your school looks better for it.</p>