<p>-Rensselaer Medal</p>
<p>-Yale Book Club Award</p>
<p>-National Honor Society</p>
<p>-National (Language) Honor Society (but I was an officer)</p>
<p>-AMC score of >90 in 10th grade (this better not be useless)</p>
<p>-Attended the Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (I somehow got an award for this, where would I even put it on the application?)</p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>Your AMC score is definitely not useless, but I am unsure about the other ones.
It wouldn’t hurt you to put all of these down, I’m assuming. Why not, anyhow?</p>
<p>School awards are generally not worth mentioning.</p>
<p>Awards are nice, but generally they don’t mean much unless they are extremely prestigious. You could probably get away with not having any awards. They might add sparkle to an application but they really don’t show much about the applicant other than the fact that he isn’t completely incompetent.</p>
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Would that fall under Rensselaer Medal, Yale Book Club, and NHS? or others too?</p>
<p>NHS is national, you should count it.</p>
<p>NHS is a school award. List them all.</p>
<p>You should list all of them. School awards are NOT useless. They show that you are amongst the best and the brightest at your school. You should give a brief description of what the award was for as well.
Good luck and congrats on all of the awards!</p>
<p>Hmmm…I got the Yale Book Award but some other girl in my class got the Harvard Book Award I found out - what is this supposed to mean?</p>
<p>Everything except the first two should be listed! And maybe even the first two. I just don’t know what they are hahaa! But the rest are legit! Congrats.</p>
<p>Any club or organization that you’re in but NOT an officer is useless.</p>
<p>Bitesize, what was the point of that comment? One, the thread is about awards, not clubs. Secondly, Being an officer helps, sure. But colleges want to see that you are highly involved and motivated in clubs and organizations, not that you are Super captain master of the Universe.</p>
<p>The point of the comment was addressing the OP’s question. NHS is nice, but it’s still useless if you’re not an officer to any even moderately competitive school. The OP was also in NLHS so I would put that. </p>
<p>Also, regarding your comment, any “highly involved” student would be an officer to begin with eventually. (Perhaps not their first year, but in subsequent years). I never said that he should try to become an officer of many clubs, just that being members of clubs alone is useless and is just unnecessary filler to an application. If he is trying to apply to a non competitive school and has low stats, then sure it might help. Otherwise, I would only display things that actually would help you. (In the OP’s case, NLHS, Yale Book Club Award, Rensselaer Medal and AMC score)</p>
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<p>Agreed. Unless the OP has made significant contributions without an officer position.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m honestly sorry I misinterpreted what you said. I thought you were simply saying “become the Pres. of every club you can.” My bad. :)</p>
<p>I mean, I’m President of my NHS and I have some big things planned, but most of the kids in my NHS are very involved.</p>
<p>Yeah…I can’t believe I didn’t become an officer. I ran for tutor co chair, and at my school you first get people to nominate you, then you get people to vote for you, and then the top three write an essay. Guess how I didn’t get picked (hint: I’m scared about my college essay, and kids with lower stats than me got into a summer program while I didn’t - the only thing on the app besides stats was an essay). ■■■. I had HUGE plans for tutor co chair too. I was going to target the lower level classes, create an after school tutoring center for kids who would do homework in the library anyway, and all those things just went down the drain. Sorry this whole post was just a complaint.</p>
<p>Elbeen, are you actually familliar with my last award? Because you said everything besides the first two should be on there.</p>
<p>They are not useless unless they mean something to you.<-corny.</p>
<p>You should complain to your school to change it to Essay - Nomination - > Vote.</p>
<p>Ok, I will put most of them down, except for National Honor Society. However since I did get past the nomination and the vote, is it worth it to list it and mention that I was “nominated for tutor co chair”?</p>
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Put that. My older daughter got several small scholarships for NHS participation.</p>