<p>Is winning a Quiz Competition or getting scholarships from tech companies, a scholastic distinction? Like National and regional level quiz…</p>
<p>Absolutely!</p>
<p>any more ppl? plz confirm</p>
<p>Unless the quiz was along the lines of, ‘what is your favorite potato chip and why’, yes. And even then, I can think of contexts in which it could qualify.</p>
<p>Quiz related to Science,History, General Awarenes…</p>
<p>Definitely! If it’s a less-known competition, I would also include a description.</p>
<p>and winning scholarships from Tech Education Companies and famous book publishers?</p>
<p>I was the finalist of a regional quiz competition… among top 9 out of approx. 16000 students 
I won an Online Quiz competiton too…Geography related</p>
<p>One more question. I have won an Online Quiz Competition <em>Geography Quiz</em> (National level)…shud I place it on my apps… I won this when I was in 8th…so will it count?</p>
<p>Please Comment</p>
<p>The mere fact of you listing something means it “counts” in the sense that the ad coms will see it. They don’t have a secretary black out middle school geography awards before the app gets to them. And they don’t have a secretary systematically assign points to awards and only pass along the total point count, with middle school geography awards getting zero. </p>
<p>No particular award is intrinsically “good” or “bad” to list. You have to put it into the context of what else you have. If you have 50 things that could potentially be listed as awards, you want to pick the most important or prestigious things, and you don’t want them to be lost in a long list of trivial things. </p>
<p>A general rule of thumb is that high school awards have a lot more “value” on your college apps than middle school awards. Prestigious high school awards won during middle school potentially have extra value. So if you qualify for the USA Math Olympiad in 7th grade (which a couple of kids do every year), you should definitely list it. Qualifying for Mathcounts State in 7th grade, not so much, although you might list it if you don’t have anything better (if you are in the top 10 at Mathcounts Nationals, that’s impressive enough that most people probably list it even if they went on to qualify for USAMO and other high school awards).</p>
<p>For your situation, if you were 9th out of 16000 on a geography contest in 8th grade , and the only other thing you have to list is 10th out of 30 in a local seed spitting contest, you list the geography thing. But if you also have 3 gold medals from international math and science olympiads, you don’t list the geography thing.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that anything can be listed, no matter how pathetic or how long ago it was, if it is the best thing you have. But if you have some awards that are orders of magnitude better than others, don’t list the minor stuff.</p>
<p>What if I have 3 medals from International Olympiads
Should I put them in three of the seven slots or try to compress them into 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Texas137, thanks a lot for going in with such a detail… btw, my 9/16000 contest was when I was in 9th…
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<p>Swetco, it would depend on what else you had. If the next-best thing is the local seed spitting contest, give each Olympiad medal its own slot and leave the seed-spitting out. If you also won Intel, and Siemen’s-Westinghouse, and the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and are a Putnam Fellow, then you might want to consolidate the Olympiad medals.</p>
<p>btw - Don’t take the 7 spaces on the app as a limit. Just take it as a suggestion of some reasonable amount of space that would be adequate for most people, and which is intended to discourage people people from giving up in despair if they don’t have (m)any awards, and to discourage people from listing every piddly little thing they can think of. If you have won numerous very high level awards, that should be a major part of your app. You would want to choose someplace in the app to list them all and include some details.</p>