<p>End of junior year.</p>
<p>From RPI’s website:</p>
<p>Once the selection is received at Rensselaer, an award certificate is mailed to the school for presentation at a school assembly.</p>
<p>[The</a> Rensselaer Medal :: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.rpi.edu/undergraduate/admission/freshman/rpimedal.html]The”>The Rensselaer Medal | Admissions)</p>
<p>If the school doesn’t give any awards to juniors at your award assembly, then the school would just have to give it to him separately.</p>