Common App Awards - MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

This is not true. My child received Letter of Commendation for National Merit a couple weeks ago.

At Blair.

[Anonymous]

“The national cutoff for commended students was 207 for the 2022 scholarship cycle. Test-takers with a 207 or higher became either commended students or semifinalists. The scholarship program determines semifinalists on a state-proportional system.” From Sept 2022.

You can look up your kid’s score and figure this out.

[Anonymous]

207!?! Didn’t it use to be about 212.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

For SSL award, if you already meet the requirements, can you list but say “anticipated June 2023?” Like college seniors do for their degrees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

For SSL award, if you already meet the requirements, can you list but say “anticipated June 2023?” Like college seniors do for their degrees?

I think you can say that. My kid has 350 hours instead of 75 and is going to add that to her Common App.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone name schools that have honor roll? Do they tell the students?

Blair has Honor Roll and they tell the students.

I don't think mine got any communication on that. Graduated last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

RM doesn't do honor roll but they have NHS.

RM does have Honor Roll. They listed it the first 3 quarters last year for each grade on the school website. Basically, 450+ students from each grade was included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

This is not true. My child received Letter of Commendation for National Merit a couple weeks ago.

At Blair.

Whitman hasn’t notified nat’l merit commended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

This is not true. My child received Letter of Commendation for National Merit a couple weeks ago.

At Blair.

Whitman hasn’t notified nat’l merit commended.

Test was a year ago. Why does it take so long?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

This is not true. My child received Letter of Commendation for National Merit a couple weeks ago.

At Blair.

Whitman hasn’t notified nat’l merit commended.

Test was a year ago. Why does it take so long?

That is a question for the National Merit Scholarship Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seal of Bilteracy
Any honors society at the school
AP Scholar or Distinction
Commended National Merit or NMSF
SSL Awards
Honor Roll

Whitman does not have honor roll or honor societies. Officially kids don’t get the SSL award until graduation so our counselor said it is misrepresenting to put it on common app now. Commended Natl Merit has not been announced yet. So at Whitman, the only honors that can be used on apps being in the fall are AP Scholar or Semi finalist Natl Merit.

This is not true. My child received Letter of Commendation for National Merit a couple weeks ago.

At Blair.

Whitman hasn’t notified nat’l merit commended.

Test was a year ago. Why does it take so long?

They apparently have the letters, just haven’t given them out yet for some reason. Probably so many kids they don’t want to take the time right now. My kid’s counselor said to put it since DC knows qualified.

[Anonymous]

I found a list online - not just for MCPS of course:

https://blog.prepscholar.com/academic-honors-examples-college-application

Advanced Placement (AP) Awards
AP International Diploma (APID)
AP Scholar
AP Scholar with Distinction
AP Scholar with Honor
DoDEA AP Scholar
International AP Scholar
National AP Scholar
State AP Scholar

IB Awards
IB Diploma
IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) Certificate

National Awards
Governor’s Volunteer Award
National Student Volunteer Award
President’s Award for Educational Achievement
President’s Award for Educational Excellence
President’s National Service Award

PSAT Awards
National Hispanic Scholar
National Merit Commended Student
National Merit Finalist
National Merit Scholar
National Merit Semifinalist
School-based National Merit Scholarship winner

School-Based Awards
Foreign language award
High class rank (e.g., top 10%)
Honor roll/GPA award
National Honor Society membership
Perfect Attendance Award
School-specific award
School subject-specific award
Student of the Month/Term/Year
Subject-specific Honor Society membership (e.g., Science Honor Society)

Competitions and Contests
Award for high placement (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th) or participation in any major (academic) contest, such as the following:
AAN Neuroscience Research Prize
Academic Decathlon
Academic Triathlon
American Regions Mathematics League (ARML)
B.E.S.T. Robotics Design contest
Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge
Davidson Fellows Scholarship
Doodle 4 Google
Google Science Fair
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
International BioGENEius Challenge
International Chemistry Olympiad
International Mathematical Olympiad
International Photography Awards (IPA)
Kids Philosophy Slam
LifeSmarts
Microsoft Imagine Cup
MIT INSPIRE
MIT THINK Scholars Program
Model UN
National Academic League
National Academic Quiz Tournament
National Economics Challenge by CEE
National Geographic Bee
National Geographic Student Photo Contest
National High School Mock Trial Championship
National Science Bowl
National Science Olympiad
PhysicsBowl
Quiz Bowl
Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS)
Regional/National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards
University Interscholastic League (UIL)

Miscellaneous Awards (These go under Extracurriculars I think)
Boy Scouts/Eagle Scouts awards
Employee of the Month
Girl Scouts awards
Merit scholarships for college
Musical performance award
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) winner
National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) winner
Publications (such as short stories, art pieces, essays, etc.)
Volunteer award
Work award or promotion


One I don't see listed but I think could be a school based award would be if a student received an award in the school's Science Fair?