<p>So I’m looking through the packet thing that they give to everyone who attends graduation and I’m looking at all the awards that people have gotten for different things. Most of them are local awards they got for ‘being a leader in freshman honors Biology’ or ‘excellence’ in such an a such a program (mainly town things where you just go to think place once a week and listen to some guy talk). Others are middle of the road…college book awards for instance.</p>
<p>These people rack of up LOTS of these. Like WHOLLY POOP they have a million. I have none. BUT, I was a finalist in a major presidential library national essay contest. So what looks better? Lots of little local/regional awards or one really good national one?</p>
<p>One really good national one, hands down. Colleges won’t really care about the thousands of tiny local awards that kids get, since it’s usually fairly easy to get them. Of course, if you have a big one and a few smaller ones of a similar nature to complement it, so much the better.</p>
<p>^agreed. However, if you don’t get a national one, a small one is better than nothing.</p>
<p>yea definitely quality should be emphasized, but any recognition should at least be appreciated, right?</p>
<p>I doubt that colleges would take into account something like “English student of the month” or “Walmart customer service friendly award of the year” :)</p>
<p>But seriously, I have received many local math and speech awards, but I listed only my regional and national awards. This was partically because I just couldn’t find all of my medals/certificates, but also because my other awards simply outweigh them.</p>
<p>Both Quality and quantity matter.</p>
<p>Consistency of award winning over a number of years shows
a certain level of excellence not easily achieved?</p>
<p>Though the back of my school transcript did list the course
awards singly, in my additional information section I condensed
the course awards (about 15 of them) into 2 small lines. In
the adidtional info section greater emphasis was given to the
national and international awards.</p>
<p>I didn’t even think twice about not listing any school awards that I received. I figured that if any of them were worth mentioning, my counselor would talk about them.</p>