Suggestions for HS academic awards criteria

weenie
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:14:29 +0000

I actually don’t know that much about awards at my son’s school. I think they are very low key. They do not even name a valedictorian. (Maybe that is a Jesuit thing. It wouldn’t surprise me.)

BUT some of the college-specific scholarships that kids have to be recommended for seem to go out rather arbitrarily. (They also go out very quietly - secretly almost.) Sometimes kids get them and they’ve never even heard of the college before, or it is a completely inappropriate fit. So I always wonder - were they awarded to a big donor’s kid, or were they trying to just gerneally recognize a kid, or were they just trying to get it over with and rushed, or what. Mysterious.

So anyway, I guess I’m wondering what kind of awards is this thread talking about?