<p>What is the deal with the book awards? Are they important or are they just fluff that the colleges use to try to recruit us? Any thoughts...?</p>
<p>book awards?? please explain in more detail...</p>
<p>oftentimes a college will give some selected high schools the goahead to present certain students with certain characteristics a book award in its name... i think it can help with college admissions, however, it isn't a hook or anything- this year the person who got the yale book award at my high school is applying early to harvard and the one who got the harvard book award decided to go early with yale...</p>
<p>What does it mean in terms of the college... are they trying to recruit you? What's the motive? It doesn't seem particulary impressive...why do the colleges bother?</p>