What constitutes reaches, matches, and safeties

I’m not sure there’s universal agreement on what “hooks” mean. Some may consider some of these awards “hooks”, but others would exclude academic achievements from the category of “hooks”.

BTW, that list needs some revisions:

A Putnam Fellow is, by definition, already in college. And no high school student has ever even been close to be considered for a Fields Medal or a Nobel Prize in any academic categories.