Harvard Prize Book Award?

dascholar
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:09:52 +0000

Sikorsky, why are you scratching your head over simple logic? State, national or international academic or extracurricular honors/awards don’t go to students with empty resumes. To be in the game, you have to win something. Significant school or regional honors/awards create the impression of a winner, particularly in the field in which the student is most talented and accomplished. Thus students with zero accomplishments don’t usually get into the Governor’s School of North Carolina, MIT RSI or MIT MITES and TASP, no matter how high their grades or test scores are. So, Sikorsky, significant school awards help you to win regional honors, significant regional honors help you to win state honors, significant state honors help you to win national honors, and significant national honors help you to win international honors (which generally lead to a quick acceptance to Harvard.) Why is this simple idea a head scratcher for you?

notjoe, you might not like it and you may consider it inappropriate, but students get into Harvard, MIT, or Stanford even though they have classified their HPB award as a “Regional Award/Honor” on their Common App. Sorry, but you don’t make the rules.