<p>All seniors: which of you got the Yale Book Award? What are the criteria for it being awarded at your school? Were there any kickbacks? For example, recepients of the Harvard Book Award from all over the country get to attend a special luncheon in Boston and meet alums? Everyone: how much of a role do you think it plays in admissions?</p>
<p>There's a Yale Book Award??? God damn. I want it. My school doesn't have it - only Harvard, Bryn Mawr... and a few others.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got it. It just means you got good grades and worked hard. I dont know how much it helps. lets hope</p>
<p>lol i got the harvard book and i never heard about any luncheon. maybe they just assumed i wouldn't go since i live far away</p>
<p>we have the dartmouth for a guy and the wellesley for a girl- i got the wellesley award :)</p>
<p>our school doesn't do that</p>
<p>no one cares if you got the book award for their college, it doesn't make a difference... the obvious exception is any school (like RPI) that attaches a scholarship to the award</p>
<p>I got the Yale Book Award. I got a nice book with it too, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Heh, and I'm applying to Harvard EA. Hopefully, it doesn't hurt me. >_<</p>
<p>Mw05, ditto! I got the Harvard Book Award, but no luncheon invitation! :mad: Our school doesn't give out the Yale one. I was sort of upset, too...I kept thinking, "Oh no! Will Yale reject me because I got the Hahhhhvahhhd Award?" Balthasar, we should swap!</p>
<p>Not fair...my school doesn't give anything like that. My guidance counselors probably haven't even heard of these things...</p>
<p>Same here, vivaldi. Oh well.</p>
<p>The counselor suggests to the alumni rep who should get the award. Awards sometimes go to students who have the least bit of interest in applying to H or Y. Sometimes counselors nominate a bright student who has not received other recognitions and it is designed to give the student a feather to stick in his cap.</p>
<p>his/her cap</p>
<p>I got the Bartletts Familiar Quotations book too!!! Its so handy!</p>
<p>i got the yale book award. i didn't get an actual plaque like all the other awards that were given out. instead i got a book written by one of yale's current professors.
the criteria: basically a well-rounded person with a good personality. something like that.
i don't know if it helps. let's hope it does!</p>
<p>My daughter got the Harvard book award, a book called, literally, "The Harvard Book," full of miscellaneous writings about Harvard. No luncheon invitation, and we live less than 2 hours from Cambridge. Are you sure that's not an urban legend? If the award was intended to influence her in Harvard's favor, it failed because she applied to Yale early decision and is a junior there now, at the moment slaving over a crushing end of semester schedule of papers & exams.</p>
<p>I got a Caltech book award for "creativity in math and sciences, sth sth..." I am pretty sure though that the book awards have nothing to sdo with gettin into the college or not</p>
<p>My D got the Harvard Book Award last year(she's a senior now). She did get invited to the luncheon with us (her parents) and her principal. We live twenty minutes from Harvard. She declined the luncheon invitation,there was a lot going on in school that day. Since she did not apply to Harvard it did not seem to be a big deal.</p>
<p>I wish that I got the invite to the luncheon. I got the Harvard Book Award. Our school only gives out the Harvard one and the Wellesley one, so no Yale Book :(</p>
<p>Just be glad your school knows what book awards are...</p>