How much do awards/honors matter?

CTScoutmom
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:40:07 +0000

As with grades, scholastic honors and awards will be taken in context. If your school offers none, you won’t have them. However, many of the awards students are listing are not related to their schools. National Merit is not a school-based award, and is available outside the US, though I believe only to US citizens. Even with the US based awards, most are only available to a very small number of students. You should be fine as long as you can show involvement within your community.