| At our public high school, 10 of 13 NM Finalists were male, 8 out of 11 in top 3% were female. The 3 female NM finalists overlapped with top 3% but only 1 of the males was in both groups. At scholarship night, there were very few male winners and one girl who walked away the big winner in terms of quantity--a girl who had maintained a 4.0 by avoiding the tough courses (schools only recognizes UW GPA's) but who apparently applied for every single scholarship for which she came close to meeting the criteria. There was some bitterness among other students but I don't think any of the rest had submitted nearly the number of scholarship applications as she. I know when my S graduated, he said applying for $1,000 organizational scholarships were not worth his time--although I was in disbelief at the time, I now see it must not be an uncommon attitude among boys. There are no academic departmental awards at the HS; the extracurricular awards are handled in venues in which only those who participate attend and so are not well publicized. |