<p>haha false, it’s $200. Too much for me.</p>
<p>What I am noticing is that to truly excel in the humanities, you must first jump the hurdle of having excellent math and science skills in order to gain admission into the very best liberal arts schools. I find this kind of ironic that my non-math kid is able to get a 780 on his math SAT and a 760 on his Chem SAT2, but really is using skills and knowledge he has picked up mostly by osmosis in order to gain admittance into the schools with the very best anthropology/philosophy/history programs! </p>
<p>This would make the kids who are able to become the next generation’s big thinkers globally gifted in all areas.</p>
<p>Of course, he’s not interested enough to participate in Siemens or Intel and has a casual relationship with the math team - mostly because he has trouble saying no :), so is probably not looking at HYPS, but certainly, a Swarthmore, Haverford or Williams will do, and the others, not aware of what their missing will just have to wait for him for grad school!</p>
<p>I think what I have done would count as prestigious, so I would like to help answer the question </p>
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<p>Unfortunately, because accomplishments in the humanities are so unique, my accomplishment’sidentity would probably disclose my identity if it were scanned by an admissions officer on CC. So I’ll stick to generalities.</p>
<p>This past summer, I worked with a professor at a local Top-25 university. By the end of it, I was acknowledged in one of the top (i. e. 1%) national journals in the field and preparing another article for submission.</p>
<p>I had already known the professor, and he had already known my potential. When I e-mailed him over the spring, he was excited to have me along. I would not recommend a cold email. Instead, try to work whatever connections you may have.</p>
<p>The experience was one of the happiest of my life.</p>
<p>Well any competitions for internationals?</p>
<p>Cato91: good idea. any other ideas?</p>
<p>As far as writing, I think the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are as close as you can get to an Intel STS/Siemens for humanities people. I would even say that a National Award from Scholastic is harder to come by than “Semi-Finalist” designation from Intel or Siemens: whereas about 25% of entries are recognized by Siemens as Semi-Finalists, 1% of entries are recognized by Scholastic as National Award recipients. There is, though, the “Gold Key” and “Silver Key” in the Scholastic competition that denote regional-level achievement, which about 20% receive. </p>
<p>Achievement in the humanities, IMO, requires a greater degree of intellectual maturity than does achievement in the sciences because they study human beings instead of quarks an ions. That, I believe, is why so few opportunities exist for HS students.</p>
<p>^ agreed. Humanities does require much more inherent maturity… math is studied by humans and humans are studied by humanists.</p>
<p>^Exactly! I like that.</p>
<p>Aww, as an international I can’t compete in Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. What other stuffs can i do? Any other competitions?</p>
<p>if you’re a canadian, you can ^</p>
<p>There must be some other awards that someone knows!</p>
<p>The Ayn Rand essay contest (literary analysis), the JFK essay contest (world affairs/history), the National Peace essay contest (world affairs/history), NCTE for writers.</p>
<p>Check out the Davidson Fellows competition. Up to $50,000 scholarships in a variety of disciplines including philosophy, literature and “outside the box”.</p>
<p>any prestigious ones open to internationals? im not canadian</p>
<p>JFK sounds good, how many people apply to that per year?</p>
<p>^ A lot. Enough that even George Orwell shouldn’t count on it. To some degree, humanities ‘contests’ are a game of chance.</p>
<p>hi peeps, any stuffs i can do as an international? other than concord review</p>
<p>I’m gonna try for the JFK; after all, Shakespeare was my writing mentor :), while FDR was my History mentor :P</p>
<p>National history day is prestigious? My group didn’t go to the D.C to compete because of financial issues, but we were 2nd in state for exhibit and 1st for the history quiz bowl we had afterward.</p>
<p>yea I didn’t know it was prestigious either. Are there any awards that are well recognized for college students?</p>
<p>bump this up!</p>
<p>bump…</p>