<p>At our school, we had a ceremony held by CSF, who gave out awards.
I forgot all the award names but there was like the Caltech Signature Award, Yale Book award, Wellesley Book Award, Harvard book award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Mt. Holyoke (is that how you spell it) and a couple more, but i forgot the names.
Did anyone else get one?
If so, how much will they weigh in the admission scales?</p>
<p>Not much since it is usually given out to students selected by teachers, independent of the colleges. The local alumni association usually comes up with a book or medal.</p>
<p>But do write it on</p>
<p>My nephew recently won a Harvard book award. He was told by the local Harvard Alumni Assn that it will increase his chanses of admission to about 25% instead of the typical 10% (or less) chance.</p>
<p>My daughter is also a member (lifetime) of CSF, and I think it will look very nice on the college apps. Here’s a couple websites regarding CSF (for California):</p>
<p>[CSF</a> Awards and Membership](<a href=“http://www.csf-cjsf.org/StudentAwards.asp]CSF”>http://www.csf-cjsf.org/StudentAwards.asp)
[California</a> Scholarship Federation](<a href=“http://www.csf-cjsf.org/CSFHome.asp]California”>http://www.csf-cjsf.org/CSFHome.asp)</p>
<p>CSF is completely useless, there were about 80 CSF life members in last year’s graduating class of 400 at my school…</p>