Fanning the Egotistic Flames
So, I didn't get any money, but I took in some hardware at the Senior Awards Celebration. I received the University of Pennsylvania book award, a little thingy for doing ASE, and I think I'm going to receive (I left too early to tell because I was tired of sitting through the hundreds of CIM awards) somekind of thingy for being a National Merit Scholar Semifinalist (they haven't released this year's finalists, so I still may have hope!). Not bad. Some other people of interest are Ms. Meyerowitz--our new partner in leadership crime for next year--who got the award for her ASE internship and the Wellesley book award; and there was also the great Emily Priebe who received the Bryn Mawr book award, and a few other people I can't remember. You know it's really ironic that they call it a "book award" because U Penn didn't actually give me a book. But they will, according to the counseling office; apparently they want to get it autographed, and someone wants to have a conversation with me about my college plans.
so what's ASE? Google says:
Automotive Service Excellence,
Adult Secondary Education,
Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering,
Alliance to Save Energy,
American Society of Echocardiography,
Academia de Studii Economice,
Adaptive Server Enterprise,
Automated Software Engineering,
Adaptive Server Enterprise,
Athens Stock Exchange,
All Seeing Eye,
and that's only the first 2 pages....
The National Merit people get recognized their senior year. Semi-finalists have not yet officially been announced, and according to the people that run the program students who had letters written were in the top something percent, and then in (I think) September they will split those people into two groups: commended students and semi-finalists. 214 was the cutoff for the class of 2005, and 213 for 2004, so if your score was right there you may be in either group; below would make you a commended student and above would make you a semi-finalist. Of course, Wilson is unaware of this information and, incorrectly, believes that everyone who recieved a letter a month or so ago is a semi-finalist. Which, in fact, we are not.
Wow. I hope you appreciate how thorough that was. Sorry.
ASE is Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering.
I suspected that something was fishy with the NMSQ; I remember being somewhat disappointed with my scores when I received them, so I was surprised that I would have been a semifinalist.
Any idea what I got?
I think you got an award for the Continental Math Competition (not sure...) and possibly for the AMC. It strikes me there might have been something else, but I don't recall specifically.
So what's the deal with all these awards?
(especially at the SENIOR awards ceremony)