Suggestions for HS academic awards criteria

mikenthemaddog66
Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:19:55 +0000

I’ve gotten Royally screwed over for these awards.
One could argue that I deserved the Mathematics awards since sophmore year. I participated the most in classes and scored highest on mathematics competitions in my school. I was in AP stat and that teacher chose it that year. They gave it to the val in my class, because she had a 100% average in the course. I could see how some people would be annoyed that a girl in AP stat and Algebra II, could get the award over people in BC calc. I had Trig/Precalc and AP Stat, so I was annoyed about that too. What’s worst of all, I and 4 other guys scored higher than she did on the AP test.

Junior year I was in AP Calculus with the highest grades. I once again had the highest scores in Math Competition in my school. However, the award went to a senior who was not in AP Calculus, but regular calculus, even though he had the ability to be in AP Calc, but decided to slack his senior year. The teacher who chose the award was retiring that year and they administration felt it prudent that she should get to choose her students for this award. Bah!

Well, I guess I’ll just get a bunch of Academic Awards Senior year, but they won’t really help me.