<p>I am just wondering what kind of academic awards there are?</p>
<p>I am familiar with the AP awards (AP scholar, etc).</p>
<p>Plus the National Merit Scholarship Program.</p>
<p>But other than those -- what would fall under academic awards except your local school's honor roll, best student kind of thing?</p>
<p>Could you list IB diploma candidate?</p>
<p>It seems like many other awards involve an activity and/or community service -- so they wouldn't be academic awards.</p>
<p>Valedictorian
Salutatorian</p>
<p>would you know if you were val/sal when sending in the college application? I would think that it would include second semester grades.</p>
<p>Try going to the websites of the schools you are interested in. Usually there is a class demographic that will give you a good idea of what's important to the particular school as they have taken the time and trouble to post it as a demographic worth public view. </p>
<p>That should give you an idea.</p>
<p>Do colleges care if you were selected for Who's Who Among American HS Students?</p>
<p>Colleges don't care for Who's Who because anyone can get on that list.</p>
<p>Various college's book awards, as in Dartmouth Book Award.</p>
<p>Under academic awards you can put down pretty much any award you've gotten. If you've done some competitions, like Science Olympiad, various math competitions, science competitions, essay contests, etc. Anything like that can go down.</p>
<p>What about a sophmore year history award that only one student gets a year?</p>
<p>"What about a sophmore year history award that only one student gets a year?"</p>
<p>ABSOLUTELY NO!!!!!! ESPECIALLY THAT PARTICULAR AWARD. :)</p>
<p>High scores on math contests like AMC and AIME, and even participation in USAMO would get you good attention</p>
<p>OpiefromMayberry: I'm just wondering...why not? Are school subject/dept. awards chosen by teachers really that "fluffy" or just insignificant?</p>
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<p>I think you completely missed the sarcasm :)</p>
<p>Lol...um. I'm sorry. :) I do things like that. And I'm a bit textually clueless at catching sarcasm.</p>
<p>ok -- thanks for the answers.</p>
<p>It looks like these awards would be alright to put down under "academic awards/achievements" -- AP scholar designation, national merit/ national achievement contest designation, val/sal, scores/accomplishments on tests (latin exam, aime, etc), placement in academic competitions (science/math olympiad, etc), essay contests won, local/school academic awards.</p>
<p>Would history day/science fair competition placement go in this spot, also? </p>
<p>anything I am leaving out?</p>
<p>also -- I am guessing that you put the most important one at the top and work down, going from national awards and progressing down to school awards, depending on what you have. correct?</p>
<p>THANKS!</p>
<p>"Various college's book awards, as in Dartmouth Book Award."</p>
<p>Sorry, no one cares that the school chose you arbitrarily over the next guy!</p>
<p>Science fair placement is grat. Basically, the things that your school gives you no one really cares about. School contests are great, but adcoms don't usually care too much. It's all about the EC awards!</p>
<p>What about NCTE?</p>
<p>fhimas88...Sorry, no one cares that the school chose you arbitrarily over the next guy!</p>
<p>I disagree. These are achievement awards although the teachers give it. It shows that the faculty thought that you, and not someone else, deserved to be recognized based on your abilities. It is not really arbitrary.
Now, awards like Student of the Month nobody care for because it is a 'feel good award'. Also any 'honor' that almost everybody gets is not worth listing (example: Who is Who listing)</p>
<p>Someone mentioned before high scores in math contests such as the AMC and AIME. But what about just participation in those types of contests. Also, what about being on your school's team for a math league, such as the Bergen County Math League, New Jersey Math League, and Continental Math League. And what about scoring highly on the National Spanish Exam (you have to be recommended to take this exam)?</p>
<p>bumping this thread hoping someone has new ideas of value of continental math league !!</p>