Will this "Award" make me look worse?

fallenchemist
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:09:29 +0000

It won’t look like your abilities declined at all. That would be a bit like saying getting two silver medals in an Olympics looks bad because you won a gold and silver the time before. I know this isn’t quite as restrictive as getting an Olympic medal, but it still represents high achievement. Besides, I could make an equal argument that an admissions review might say “I wonder if they didn’t enter at all this year?” if they see nothing. Probably not, but being active and showing what is obviously excellent talent is far more important to admissions than exactly what keys you won. They aren’t looking to separate people by how they placed nearly as much as they are giving you credit for simply doing the activity well.