Which three awards should I include in my Georgetown Application? I only have three available spots and I want to give off three that would give the best impression. The options are as follows:
–Inducted into National Technical Honor Society
-Voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’
-Governor’s Honors Program Nominee in Communicative Arts (State)
-Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award (Award given to one person in my highschool who are dedicated to social justice)
-AP Scholar (3 or more APs with a 3 or higher)
-Georgia Outstanding Citizen (Awarded by the Speaker of the House for my service and citizenship)
-Georgia Certificate of Merit (For grades)
-National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists Award of Excellence (Sounds nice but got in soph year and I dont know if its a scam award?)
-STAR Student (Highest SAT score in my school)
I’d say don’t include “most likely to succeed,” “AP scholar,” or the last three (I think the penultimate is probably a fraud thing). They’ll get your scores. Pick the awards that best make sense with whatever narrative you’re trying to portray. Choose whatever is closest to what you want to go into, or what you write about in your essay. It’s better to have strengths and achieve great things in those areas than to have a bunch of different (minor) awards or achievements in a bunch of subjects. Focus is good, and shows to the admissions officers that you’ll impact their community and make their school look good in the future based on the work you’ve already done in a certain subject. That’s just my two cents though, and people might disagree.
I would go with the Governor’s Honor Program, Frederick Douglass and Oustanding Citizen 