2006-07 Siemens Awards for AP

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Can I state again how INCREDIBLY biased these awards are to wealthy suburban/private school students? There is not a single private school in my city that offers 8 APs, much less 15 or twenty.</p>

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<p>Well you can just learn independently, but the tests are still expensive unless your school pays for it like mine.</p>

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<p>I wish I knew about this before my junior year started… my bio teacher is up there for like the 2nd or 3rd time XD</p>

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<p>schrizto…
do you know how many of the science/math aps he took?</p>

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<p>Of course the awards are biased. The CollegeBoard is under no obligation to give Siemens awards out based on environmental circumstances. Since it’s the CollegeBoard’s money, they have every right to give it away based on whatever selection criteria they want. If you’re interested, there are plenty of organizations that do attempt to take environmental factors into consideration (most top colleges, scholarship programs, etc.).</p>

<p>And some organizations set even more seemingly “unfair” criteria, like “you must be a child of a McDonald’s employee to get X scholarship.” Clearly these sorts of awards are very biased towards children of McDonalds’ employees. But there’s no reason all three can’t exist, at least not in a capitalist society like ours.</p>

<p>By the way, someone from my (public magnet) school got one of those awards, so I assure you they’re not restricted to the wealthy.</p>

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<p>LoL:
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<p>wow…
hope their social life didn’t drown down the drain</p>

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<p>I am friends with 3 national winners… and not a single one of them has sacrificed social life for smarts. (Suffice it to say that none of the state winners I know have done the same either.)</p>

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<p>It’s impossible to take more than two math/science APs at my school junior year.</p>

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<p>Yes, only science/math count. I will ask Elise Liu. She was awarded it and goes to my school.</p>

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<p>yayy my school is on there :-)</p>

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<p>I took 3 of those math/science exams in 9th grade and the rest of the five this year. I scored 5 on all 8 exams. I think I may have a chance to get on that list.
Does anyone know when Seimens will announce the winners?
thanks.</p>