What's the significane of "AP Awards?"

Applying to College
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<p>I just found out yesterday that I won an "AP Scholar" award for getting a 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams. So what? Any monkey could achieve that.</p>

<p>Does this give me some sort distinguished honor to add to my college applications and academic r</p>

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<p>Not sure either. I got the AP scholar with honor award. Wondering the same thing. If anyone one knows please enlighten us!</p>

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<p>You can add it to the resume. It won’t make a difference at very competitive schools because so many other students have it.</p>

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<p>Put it on your apps. It’s not really a big deal, but it is an award, so you might as well mention it.</p>

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<p>Well you can only list so many awards, so best not to mention the minor ones</p>

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<p>My son got National AP Scholar and will put it in the app, but even that isn’t a huge award. I guess it depends on where you’re applying.</p>

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<p>There are not many National AP scholars who qualify for it at the end of 11th. It seems to be about 2300 compared to 16,000 announced as national merit semi finalists each year.</p>

<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2012/National_Summary_12.xls[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2012/National_Summary_12.xls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Sorry, here is the AP Scholars by State link.</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/ap-scholar-counts-2012.xls[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/ap-scholar-counts-2012.xls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I agree with all of the above. The younger you are when you win it, the more impressive it is. It’s not a “major” award, per se, but is significant if you are, say, a 9th grade scholar, or 10th grade scholar with distinction, or 11th grade National Scholar. These sorts of awards definitely set you apart from your peers if you win them at an earlier time than most students. When my son was a scholar with distinction in 10th grade, I happened upon a file on the CB site that showed only 4 sophomores in our state winning that award that year. So, I put it on his resume, explained what the award denoted (five tests with whatever avg.) and that he was 1 of only 4 students in the state to win it. It definitely set him apart from his peers and helped him win scholarships to prestigious summer programs and, later, college. If you earned it at the end of Junior year, I would put it on there unless you have a lot of national awards. It IS a national award and can be marked that way on all of your apps. A national award is a national award and, statistically, not even many juniors earn AP Scholar. So, pat yourself on the back, and list it near/at the top of your apps as a national award!</p>

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<p>I got AP Scholar with Distinction (for 11), and got AP Scholar last year (for 10). I’m kind of mad, because I was one test away from getting National AP Scholar. I was going to take another AP class my junior year, but schedule conflicts stopped me from doing so.</p>

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<p>At my school, we only have four 90-minute “blocks” a semester and all of the AP classes that were offered are taught year-long.</p>

<p>The school administrators and guidance counselors try to “encourage” us to take all AP classes to make the school stats look better or some nonsense. Also, our school has eliminated summer assignments and finals. If all that wasn’t enough, I attend a Maryland public school–I hear that Maryland has some of the top-rated public schools in the nation.</p>

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<p>^Based on the first link I posted in post 7, Maryland has the highest per student AP tests taken.</p>

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<p>Ah, everything seems to be falling into place now.</p>