What are these "national awards" that every kid on here has?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid’s competitive dance team qualified for nationals, came in third place, and won some sort of award they give out for a specific dance thing.

I never describe it as a national award the way people do on DCUM. But I suspect when people talk about “national awards” they mean something like that.

I agree that people here use the phrase very, very loosely.

That would make the term “National award” virtually useless.

I always thought in order to mention a national award you had to win the whole thing. Out of thousands of students all over the country you were the winner. Like the spelling bee.

Correct. It is useless.
Would you prefer a national basket weaving champion, or a county math champion?

How about NMSF or commended? NMSF is technically a state award. Commended is national.

I disagree with the PP. National is in the name. Put national to highlight the award. (Yes, every college knows how it is determined.)

^I was referring to NMSF

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Anonymous wrote:There are lots of extracurriculars that have national awards? I don’t get what’s not to get.

Can you please give some examples? Thanks.

I went to nationals in debate and forensics.

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I realize this thread hasn't had any activity for a while but I'd appreciate some help: my DD, a rising high school senior, attended a University-level Summer Language Immersion program, taking College Sophomore-level Mandarin and got an academic performance award at the end of the eight-week program (She's a non-heritage speaker). Her classmates were college students from all over the US so it's kinda odd to deem this a school-level award but I'm also dubious about calling this a national award. I would appreciate any suggestions to help clarify what's a good level to categorize this award on common app. TIA!

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Anonymous wrote:My kid’s competitive dance team qualified for nationals, came in third place, and won some sort of award they give out for a specific dance thing.

I never describe it as a national award the way people do on DCUM. But I suspect when people talk about “national awards” they mean something like that.

I agree that people here use the phrase very, very loosely.

That would make the term “National award” virtually useless.

I always thought in order to mention a national award you had to win the whole thing. Out of thousands of students all over the country you were the winner. Like the spelling bee.

Correct. It is useless.
Would you prefer a national basket weaving champion, or a county math champion?

How about NMSF or commended? NMSF is technically a state award. Commended is national.

I disagree with the PP. National is in the name. Put national to highlight the award. (Yes, every college knows how it is determined.)

My kid listed it as National

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Anonymous wrote:I realize this thread hasn't had any activity for a while but I'd appreciate some help: my DD, a rising high school senior, attended a University-level Summer Language Immersion program, taking College Sophomore-level Mandarin and got an academic performance award at the end of the eight-week program (She's a non-heritage speaker). Her classmates were college students from all over the US so it's kinda odd to deem this a school-level award but I'm also dubious about calling this a national award. I would appreciate any suggestions to help clarify what's a good level to categorize this award on common app. TIA!

I would call this a school award. It was not nationally competitive to take this program. They must suspect your judgement and credibility if you list this as national. It’s impressive in its truth.

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They “might” suspect ….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I realize this thread hasn't had any activity for a while but I'd appreciate some help: my DD, a rising high school senior, attended a University-level Summer Language Immersion program, taking College Sophomore-level Mandarin and got an academic performance award at the end of the eight-week program (She's a non-heritage speaker). Her classmates were college students from all over the US so it's kinda odd to deem this a school-level award but I'm also dubious about calling this a national award. I would appreciate any suggestions to help clarify what's a good level to categorize this award on common app. TIA!

I would call this a school award. It was not nationally competitive to take this program. They must suspect your judgement and credibility if you list this as national. It’s impressive in its truth.

It is a school award. While the program takes kids from all over the country, it is not a nationwide award. Please know that it is still impressive!!

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My DS listed NSLI-Y as a national award

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS listed NSLI-Y as a national award

Yes it is.

I’ve seen that listed in that way on Admityogi

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Anonymous wrote:My kid’s competitive dance team qualified for nationals, came in third place, and won some sort of award they give out for a specific dance thing.

I never describe it as a national award the way people do on DCUM. But I suspect when people talk about “national awards” they mean something like that.

I agree that people here use the phrase very, very loosely.

That would make the term “National award” virtually useless.

I always thought in order to mention a national award you had to win the whole thing. Out of thousands of students all over the country you were the winner. Like the spelling bee.

Correct. It is useless.
Would you prefer a national basket weaving champion, or a county math champion?

How about NMSF or commended? NMSF is technically a state award. Commended is national.

I disagree with the PP. National is in the name. Put national to highlight the award. (Yes, every college knows how it is determined.)

My kid listed it as National

ridiculous

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What about NSHSS? They sent us a bumper sticker and we paid them some money. The “N” stands for National so we listed it that way on the Common App.

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Anonymous wrote:What about NSHSS? They sent us a bumper sticker and we paid them some money. The “N” stands for National so we listed it that way on the Common App.

Very funny

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Mine was national merit scholar, AP international diploma scholar and some national french competition runner up with almost perfect SAT, super high GPA, dedicated hobbies etc and acceptances were still underwhelming. However we count as Asian so there is that.

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What about being a 1st place/national winner in individual sport? Along with ranking? Can you put that there (even though sports)?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I realize this thread hasn't had any activity for a while but I'd appreciate some help: my DD, a rising high school senior, attended a University-level Summer Language Immersion program, taking College Sophomore-level Mandarin and got an academic performance award at the end of the eight-week program (She's a non-heritage speaker). Her classmates were college students from all over the US so it's kinda odd to deem this a school-level award but I'm also dubious about calling this a national award. I would appreciate any suggestions to help clarify what's a good level to categorize this award on common app. TIA!

I would call this a school award. It was not nationally competitive to take this program. They must suspect your judgement and credibility if you list this as national. It’s impressive in its truth.

Thank you!!