<p>I participate in NJ science league, which is basically a competition in which you take four exams during the year which are very rigorous in comparison to the material in honors/AP science courses, and are ranked as a team and individually. sophomore year i did Chem I (honors chem), and junior year i did Bio II (AP Bio). Our chem I team was ranked 17/156 teams, and our Bio II team was ranked 16/170 teams. Individually i was ranked in the top 20% both years. Are these results impressive or will not being on top hurt more than help? (i.e. should i just write participant, or do these ranks add value?)</p>
<p>thats cool! However, i wouldn’t put that on the top of your award list.
what other awards do you have?</p>
<p>lol that’s not that impressive to be honest (i have similar results)…you should still list that on your app but it shouldn’t be at the top of your awards list.</p>
<p>Psh, I listed really lame school awards and <100 scores on the AMC, and it didn’t seem to hurt me too much. I vote YES.</p>
<p>is a scientific publication an award/honor/distinction-if so that would top my list, followed by new jersey governor’s award in arts education for being state champion in debate, then probably 1st place in the national german exam. if i get semifinalist in siemens or intel, then that would be on top, although its related to the paper. then the normal nm semifinalist, ap scholar stuff. i don’t think its an award, just to put in the description area of the activity. are those any good?</p>
<p>^ yeah that’s good…i’m jealous btw :-(</p>
<p>on a side note…where did you do your research?</p>
<p>its not that great a school (felician college in case ur wondering), i’m just using the lab space. my dad’s technician from work is helping me build the apparatuses, and i’m basically doing my own thing, no mentoring. it’s really from scratch research and engineering-design the equipment and then use it. that prbly makes it look better b/c at like RSI and places like that the profs prbly have a significant contribution, here it’s basically me and the techinician. the prof is a chem prof, but he’s mainly just facilitating it and being my mentor officially. all i needed was a hood actually =) and a liquid chromatography machine+fourier transform infrared spectrometer which the guy happens to have- i didn’t want to attract too much attention by doing it at school. lol when the paper’s published ill send u copy.</p>