importance of awards

ccpsux
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:42:19 +0000

Often people claim that having extensive research experience will more than offset an otherwise low GPA in terms of grad application.

How about awards? Do they have similar effect?

Say, for instance, if you get an honorable mention in the ACM International Computing Contest, how much would that make one stand out, by faculty viewing the applications?

Hope you guys can talk about this with respect to my fields for grad study, namely Computer Science/Mathematics.

Many thanks