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2006-07 Siemens Awards for AP
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And just to clarify, the award is given to the male and female in each to state who gets 5s on the greatest number of math and science AP tests before his or her senior year. Ties are broken by composite scores on the individual tests. It's completely different from the awards given by collegeboard, such as AP State Scholar, although Collegeboard cooperates with Siemens in running the contest.
both of the people from california are from my school
probably because anyone who takes less than 3 APs is considered inferior
So for people freaking out:
I took four AP tests that qualified (Calc BC, Stats, Comp Sci AB, Chem) and got 5s on all of them. I also took five other AP tests that didn't count. Winning this was completely accidental.
On a side note, I had the same number as lackadaisy, and it was also completely accidental.
There's only one award per each guy and girl from a state, so indeed, this would be one of those "move-to-Wyoming-and-be-a-superstar" moments.
The only way to assure yourself of a national award is to get perfect 5's on as many exams as possible...to give you an idea, I'm feeling perfectos in stat, chem, both physics, and computer science. I took calc BC and bio last year and got near-perfects on both of those, and yet even I feel skeptical because of Environmental Science (I don't think I will get more than a 120 out of 150 on it, with about 60 of my points probably coming from the FRQ)