Everyone seems to have won awards and such when I read their resumes but which ones are actually prestigious? Are ones like President’s Volunteer and Education awards worthy of spots on the application?
<p>The President’s Volunteer Service Award signifies that you have spent 50, 100, or even 200 or more hours each year in community service. I believe strongly that this is worth mentioning on an application, and encouraged my son to include it. It shows commitment to service, not just participation because some number of hours are required by your school, and this is noteworthy.</p>
<p>list the best awards you have, whatever they are. For example, if you won the Nobel prize for physics, then making the high school honor roll is insignificant and you might want to leave it off. But if your only other thing is “third-place marble shooter”, then honor roll is really good and you should list it.</p>
<p>prestigious awards for the general population would be anything that you couldnt “easily” get, such as who’s who or honor roll, etc. </p>
<p>of course, a real prestigious award would be winning a nobel prize. that’d destroy those westinghouse winners ;)</p>
<p>ok, who’s who, i know is bad. it’s just another moneymaking thing. honor roll isn’t all that great unless it’s straight A’s.</p>
<p>it also depends on where youre applying to college. for most people, national honor society (NHS) is actually prestigious, but for the majority of the people on this board, NHS is a given. </p>
<p>while i was in high school, i remember NHS was pretty prestigious because it was very selective at my school (i mean, someone who eventually got into caltech was rejected from my high school’s NHS). but after getting onto CC and hearing how everyone laughs at NHS, i found it to be all relative… relative to where you apply and who your competition is. </p>
<p>i dont know anything about the Presidential Volunteer and Education award, but from the description i got, it sounds like something worth mentioning in your app. but from the fact that youre questioning its prestige, i have to think that it is something like NHS (maybe better)… prestigious to most but mediocre for the average CC poster.</p>
<p>the amount of prestige is not a quality inherent in the award. It’s relative to what other awards you have and what the college commonly sees in its applicant pool.</p>
<p>list awards for your extracurricular activities, not so much awards that alot of people at your school gets</p>
<p>things like getting accepted to difficult summer programs, winning in a statewide business or math competition, or getting to states in a sport</p>
<p>I really don’t see how NHS could benefit you that much unless you were president or something (like most of the minor clubs anybody is in).</p>
<p>For that matter, I tore up my NHS acceptance letter when a friend of mine, who was extremely overqualified compared to the rest of the school (myself included), was rejected, probably because he actually voiced his opinions to the Gifted program about which teachers he felt weren’t doing that good of a job - the same teachers happened to be on the NHS selection committee.</p>
<p>are you elected pres of nhs by your peers or by school officials? i know that nhs varies from school to school. for my school, you can only be considered if you are a senior while at i’ve heard other schools accept like freshies and sophomores also.</p>
<p>Here the NHS officers are elected by peers; people are admitted into NHS as either juniors or seniors, and all the officers are seniors.</p>
<p>thats worthless. i’ve volunteered 100+ hours per year for the past 2 years, and i didn’t get no “president’s volunteer award”</p>
<p>how DO you get a president’s volunteer award?</p>
<p>you have to apply for it. i forgot the the exact web address but if you type in president’s svolunteer service award into google, it’s bound to come up. as long as you meet the hour reqs for each level (bronze, silver, gold, lifetime or w/e), you can get one. but the tricky part is that you have to validate your hours by having wherever places you’ve volunteered at being “official” by registering with that site and lots of other crap.</p>
<p>Its all about presentation; a balance will highlight the student.</p>
<p>about the presidential award, what if you served a lot of hours 200+ but don’t have the award itself to list on the app? would it be disadvantageous for me?</p>
<p>From the website:
To be recognized, service activities should meet national or community needs in the areas of youth achievement, parks and open spaces, healthy communities, and public safety and emergency response.</p>
<p>Does this mean that I need hours from all these organizations?</p>
<p>Any award that has a strong applicant pool is worth mentioning…the nobel prize is so prestigious coz only 10 ppl get among the lacs anticipating …simillarly to judge the level of prestige an award would grab try analyzing the following::::</p>
<ol>
<li>Organiser’s Reputation – very imp…</li>
<li>Applicant pool :;:if only 100 ppl compete or is it in thousands</li>
<li>Annual event or one time :: Annual event Are certainly more<br>
prestigious</li>
<li>Level Of Participation :: International, National ot State or evben at High School Level</li>
</ol>
<p>Now to showcase the prestige of an award in Applications all these come into play as these are mentioned</p>
<p>Hope this helps</p>
<p>what about being a school finalist for a scholarship</p>
<p>The Congressional Medal (Gold, Silver, or Bronze - under the youth award program). </p>
<p>Congress gives only two medals by statute - the Medal of Honor and the Congressional youth medals. (Its one other medal, the regular Congressional Gold Medal, is not under a statute and is given to outstanding people on very rare occasions).</p>