<p>My son has received some additional awards since his applications were filed.He's involved in scholar bowl and had several MVPs and All-Tournament team awards thru his junior year and listed those on his applications. He also participated in Academic Challenge* and won math and chemistry awards at regional, sectional and state levels his junior year. Senior year competition hadn't started when he filed his college applications. Now he is heavy into senior year tournaments and has the following to add:
1. All-tournament team (#2 individual) of a big university-sponsored scholar bowl
2. All-tournament team (#1 individual) of our academic conference scholar bowl meet
3. Academic Challenge*-Regionals-#1 chemistry, #2 math
4. National Merit Scholar Finalist (we haven't received letter, but high school told him they received word he made it. Should we tell the school-will they already know?)
5. Spring musical parts (this is small, I know, but he'd only gone to try-outs at time of application submission). </p>
<p>He will probably make all-tournament team\MVP at big scholar bowl tournaments coming up up 2/18, 2/23 and 3/6. He has Academic Challenge Secionals coming up 3/10 and will probably place there. Academic Challenge Finals are in April (too late) .</p>
<p>Should we write this up as a letter or more as a information sheet listing his name, address, SS #, DOB and the awards?</p>
<p>At what point should he draw the line and submit additional information? Should he do it in 2 steps-one maybe after the 2/18 or 2/23 scholar bowl meets with March awards to follow? Is 2 updates too much? Should he submit this week to get it in quickly? Not every school has a policy to send "application complete" emails. We received a couple in early to mid-January and then one this week. I don't have a clue how far they are in the application review process. I'm sure my son made it thru the first weeding out process (unqualified) and is the majority of applications which require much review (not a shoo-in). Other than his scholar bowl and Academic Challenge activtites, he has been an active participant in drama and musicals, school church youth group, had some perfect SAT II's (chemistry and math II) and ACT sections, . His intended major is physics and he applied to all the science powerhouses. (MIT, some Ivies, Stanford, etc). He's already admitted to University of Illinois (great physics program, in-state tuition, but HUGE )</p>
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<li>FYI-Academic Challenge, since it's and Illinois and Missouri thing:
The Academic Challenge is a competitive series of tests created and administered by Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering and offered to high school students in Illinois and Missouri. The tests are now offered by more than 50 community colleges and universities and are designed to present a challenge to the brightest students.</li>
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<p>Test material is drawn from senior high school and freshman level college curricula. Written by teams of college and university faculty, subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics, and physics. Each test production team produces three tests of increasing levels of difficulty, regional, sectional and state finals. Students compete as individuals and as part of a team (when their school fields a team); they have 40 minutes to complete multiple-choice tests that range in length from 30 questions (computer science) to 100 questions (English).</p>
<p>Thanks for any input! Leslie</p>