<p>I see no reason to not include it. It means the student was selected from among students at that high school. </p>
<p>As far as the book award…each school uses different criteria but for example, my D got the Wellesley Book Award in junior year and the criteria for that at our school was for the top junior girl. </p>
<p>These awards were listed on the Activity/Award resume and annotated. </p>
<p>I do not agree with Advanced Lawlz who claims that unless an award is on the level of Intel/Seimens to leave it off. Only on CC would I find such a comment!!! I guess my D should have left off all her sports achievements too because she didn’t win an Olympic medal, ha ha. </p>
<p>The Bausch and Lomb Award and the Book Award were worthy of noting as academic honors/awards. A resume allows one to fit things on and annotate them that the app may not have room for. These awards may not be the highest in the land but at our school, they went to top students. </p>
<p>Oh, and for advanced Lawlz…for your information, LOTS of kids get into top schools without Intel/Siemens, etc. (my kid had never heard of those and students in our region do not participate in them either) but she was a top student including in science/math and she got into very good schools anyway (ie., Brown, Penn, and waitlist at Princeton) and is in grad school at MIT. Ya know, the mentality that only a national award will get you in or is worth mentioning is not on the mark. An abundance of achievements of other sorts are definitely worth mentioning, including the B and L Honorary Science Award as the faculty selects a top student usually to receive it.</p>
<p>I also agree with another poster that if you are a winner of this award, you are eligible for merit scholarships at U of Rochester (my D did not choose to apply, however).</p>