College Board National Recognition Awards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that you need to "Claim Your Award" by June 27th - is evidence that this is intended as a data grab for college board to sell you data

psst .. they have your data

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD is up for school recognition award? What does that mean? No idea if she is in top 10% of PSAT (didn’t prep for it and not a national merit candidate) but did get 5s on 3 APs taken in 9th and 10th.

Does the school get to pick who wins the award(s)? Is it more than one per school? Won’t the national merit scholars just win everything (at our W school at least)?

The criteria for getting the School Recognition Award is on their website. Your DD qualified by getting the 5s on 3 APs and possibly also being in the top 10% of PSAT (college board has all the data on both).

There's no "winner" - literally everyone in the top 10% of psat takers at your kids' school AND everyone who took 2 or more APs by end of soph year is getting the same award. That's why it's a meaningless recognition since your kid will be compared to other kids at their school.

At my daughter's top private where there are no APs available until 11th grade, students who receive the award will be strictly based on the PSAT, which to me is a good thing to make a student stand out -- especially when it is a school with less than 100 in a class and hence 10 or less students will receive the award.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a good shorthand for saying "I took a lot of AP classes and tests and did really well on most of them" if you don't want to list all the scores somewhere else on the app.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this award better than Commended Scholar?

No. More people qualify for this, unless more than 10% of students at your school get commended scholar (unlikely).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is this award better than Commended Scholar?

No. More people qualify for this, unless more than 10% of students at your school get commended scholar (unlikely).

Our public school last year had 352 graduates and 69 (20 percent) were NM finalists or commended, so at our school being in the top 10 percent is a bigger deal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this award better than Commended Scholar?

No. More people qualify for this, unless more than 10% of students at your school get commended scholar (unlikely).

Our public school last year had 352 graduates and 69 (20 percent) were NM finalists or commended, so at our school being in the top 10 percent is a bigger deal.

Yes. And the only reason this poster’s (probably suburban) school can have so many NMSF and commended students is because various (probably urban or rural) schools in the same state have disproportionately few. Without this school award, many of the strongest students at those underserved schools would get no recognition at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is this award better than Commended Scholar?

No. More people qualify for this, unless more than 10% of students at your school get commended scholar (unlikely).

Our public school last year had 352 graduates and 69 (20 percent) were NM finalists or commended, so at our school being in the top 10 percent is a bigger deal.

Yes. And the only reason this poster’s (probably suburban) school can have so many NMSF and commended students is because various (probably urban or rural) schools in the same state have disproportionately few. Without this school award, many of the strongest students at those underserved schools would get no recognition at all.

But they will have SAT/ACT scores, AP classes/exams, rigor. One can still be deemed 'top 10%' within the school cohort when applications come around. I dont know why top 10% after 10th Grade would matter much - if at all. A students most rigorous AP courses or otherwise advanced courses as student takes are Junior/Senior year. In your context PSAT wouldnt matter at all. Its all the stuff that happens afterward

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this award better than Commended Scholar?

No. More people qualify for this, unless more than 10% of students at your school get commended scholar (unlikely).

Our public school last year had 352 graduates and 69 (20 percent) were NM finalists or commended, so at our school being in the top 10 percent is a bigger deal.

Yes. And the only reason this poster’s (probably suburban) school can have so many NMSF and commended students is because various (probably urban or rural) schools in the same state have disproportionately few. Without this school award, many of the strongest students at those underserved schools would get no recognition at all.

But they will have SAT/ACT scores, AP classes/exams, rigor. One can still be deemed 'top 10%' within the school cohort when applications come around. I dont know why top 10% after 10th Grade would matter much - if at all. A students most rigorous AP courses or otherwise advanced courses as student takes are Junior/Senior year. In your context PSAT wouldnt matter at all. Its all the stuff that happens afterward

Sorry, I can’t really follow this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that you need to "Claim Your Award" by June 27th - is evidence that this is intended as a data grab for college board to sell you data

+1000

DC is white, UMC, and not first gen. I don’t see any reason at all to register for this silliness. DC’s GPA, AP scores, PSAT and SAT scores speak for themselves. No reason to upload a bunch more personal data to vie for some made up award that adds no new information to DC’s application.

(BTW, we opted DC out of all the marketing crap, so the only colleges DC hears from are the ones DC and proactively signed up for on the colleges’ websites. No mailbox filled with junk mail here!!

[Anonymous]

We opted out of all marketing also and still getting tons of emails from lots of colleges. Oh well as a PP says, they’ve already sold your data. College Board is a business and this is capitalism

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that you need to "Claim Your Award" by June 27th - is evidence that this is intended as a data grab for college board to sell you data

+1000

DC is white, UMC, and not first gen. I don’t see any reason at all to register for this silliness. DC’s GPA, AP scores, PSAT and SAT scores speak for themselves. No reason to upload a bunch more personal data to vie for some made up award that adds no new information to DC’s application.

(BTW, we opted DC out of all the marketing crap, so the only colleges DC hears from are the ones DC and proactively signed up for on the colleges’ websites. No mailbox filled with junk mail here!!

Kudos to the College Board for designing a race-neutral substitute for the NAARP and NHRP from which affluent white people are voluntarily choosing to exclude themselves.

[Anonymous]

After updating the transcript and providing the counselor's name, were any other steps needed? Has anyone received the award yet?