Is SkillsUSA a prestigious extracurricular?

Applying to College
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<p>I’ve been wondering this for a while now. I’m applying next year to Stanford and the top 6 UC’s (California resident) and I’ve been trying to add as much weight to my app as possible with extracurriculars. </p>

<p>I won SkillsUSA state twice and I won SkillsUSA nationals once for audio production. I know that’s seen pretty highly in the technical school world, but I was curious how actual universities see this? I want to be a biomed or chemical engineer, and I just happened to have a skill in the recording arts so I did the competition, beating out 50 or so teams. </p>

<p>Can I get others input on this?</p>

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<p>Just to throw this out there, I won an 18,000 scholarship to attend a recording arts technical school in Pennsylvania. Should I denote the fact that I turned that down/was awarded it? Does the scholarship hold weight even though its for technical school?</p>