Helpful Ranking of Summer Programs and such

Apollo11
Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:36:43 +0000

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D1 athlete (Lottery Odds)
----(Highest Level of athletics, best in country/world at your sport, top 500 out of 300000 athletes in your specific sport. Sometimes pays for total tuition.)

IMO/IPHO/ICHO/IBO medals (Given to about 50% of attendees, but 5% of all competitors as it is an international competition with pre-lims)
----(The International Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology Olympiad [Olympics for science]. Top 4 in America go here, crazy hard [10,000 apply in America] and prestigious in the order of Math, Bio, Chem, Physics. There is a thread to prepare for these and is the “easiest” of the 10’s. Also, use Wikipedia. Is the continuation of a USAMO, USABO, USACO, USAPO etc. science olympiad)

Intel STS (top 10) (10 students – open only to seniors)Home - Society for Science & the Public)
-Have to do research, usually college grad level

Siemens National Winner/National Finalists (20 winners – including teams; [Siemens Foundation - Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy - Siemens USA])
-same as intel ISEF.

ISEF top 3 Grand Prize (three – open to all HS students/international; Home - Society for Science & the Public)
-A Science and Engineering competition to solve problems, literally millions of students from around the world try to make it to the top, 1600 make it to the finals - extremely strong competitors

Published in Nature or Science
-A research paper. Not a competition, but very prestigious magazines like Nature and Science don’t publish high-school work often.

9 -

Siemens Westinghouse (finalists app. 100; [Siemens Foundation - Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy - Siemens USA)

MOP

Intel Finalist (40, including the top 10 [above])

NFL Nationals winner (speech and debate)(1 winner; National Forensic League, Speech & Debate Honor Society - National tournament)

RSI (75 accepted [http://www-math.mit.edu/news/summer/rsi.html])

8 –

TASP (64 accepted into program;
-[http://www.tellurideassociation.org/])

USPhO/USChO/USABO/USACO national finalist (20 per organization; check wiki on international science olympiads to see them all; i.e Linguistics, Comp Sci etc. +details)

Siemens Semi-finalists
-(approx. 320 [Siemens Foundation - Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy - Siemens USA][/url]

ISEF(1-4 places)
(ISEF approx. 400 of which 34 finished first; Home - Society for Science & the Public)

Intel semifinalist (300 students;Home - Society for Science & the Public)

Running your own successful business

AMC Perfect Score
(app. 10; [American Mathematics Competitions | Mathematical Association of America])

Presidential Scholar including Arts
(141 students; [U.S. Presidential Scholars Program])

Davidson Fellow (Seimens/Intel little brother)
(open to all HS students; 18 awarded in 2011 [http://www.davidsongifted.org//fello...2011_436.aspx])

Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medal Award
(approx. 300 out of 200,000 submissions (including middle school submissions))

State AP Scholar
(102 awarded [as junior or even sophomore, requires about 15-20 AP’s that average a 4-5])

Google Code Jam, (Code Jam features pro coders along with amateurs )
Google Science Fair
(1 winner science fair), www.google.com/intl/en/events…inalists.html])

7 -

Selective summer programs or competitions, such as SSP (72 students, SSP - Summer Science Program), Clark Summer Program, YESS, NIH Research, and MITES.
USAMO qualification (270 students)

ARML Tiebreaker Round / Top Team (The Official American Regions Mathematics League Web Site)

Scholastic Art & Writing National Silver Medal Award (approx. 1200 HS students)

NFL Nationals qualifier (speech and debate)

Congressional Award Gold Medalist (Congressional Award: Program Requirements)
USAMTS Gold Medal

Science Bowl/Ocean Science Bowl/NAQT winners

ISEF finalist (approx. 1600 HS students [international])

Google Science Fair Finalist (approx. 80 HS students [international])

6 -

USPhO/USChO/USABO/USACO semifinalist,

Science Olympiad National medals,

Congressional Award Silver Medalist USAMTS Silver,

First Robotics National Championship,

State Athletic Championship (Texas, California, etc.),

5--

National Latin Convention 1st Places Academic Contests, All-Eastern/all-regional music, National History Day winner, AIME qualification, Science Bowl national qualification, National AP Scholar (as a junior or sophomore)

4-

Perfect Score (Multiple Years) on National Latin Exam, or other languages, some state awards (all-state music, etc), Science Olympiad state medals (depending on what state you’re from), National History Day, JETS TEAMS National Finalist or Regional winner, MUN Gavel, AMC 10/12 school winner, Teen Jeopardy, Eagle Scout, National Merit, Toshiba ExploraVision

3 -

All-County music, winning at local/regional science fairs, Rensselaer Medalist, State Science Fair, City Athletics Champion (If city is >100,000)
President’s Service Award

2 -

Bank of America Awards, most local awards/trophies (art, music, community - although they will say something about your character), Essay Contests, State History Day

1 -

National Honor Society, Beta Club, School Departmental Awards, School Honor Roll, Key Club, CSF, Interact Club

0 -

Who’s Who, National Honor Roll, National Society of High School Scholars