<p>See topic.</p>
<p>Definitely put your AIME score down (MIT and Caltech specifically ask for it.) The average AIME score is about a 2; your score puts you in the top 1% of students nationwide who took the AMC.</p>
<p>YES! A six is good. Only 5% of AMC takers even qualify for the AIME. Your score of 6 puts in the top 5% or so of those folks. So, yes. That's close to the cut-off for USAMO.</p>
<p>haha write it down twice. People that make the USAMO almost ALWAYS make it into MIT (unless they're a convicted felon or something), and your score is really close to the cutoff. Itll be a big factor in your MIT admissions.</p>
<p>so what if you get like a 2 or a 3...lol should be even bother putting that</p>
<p>if you score 0-2, you might want to just put "AIME qualifier" under awards and leave it at that. 3 might be okay to list</p>
<p>i agree with texas137. since the average AIME score is either 1 or 2, if you score the average, just say you qualified. >3 is great!</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, guys. :)</p>
<p>If you're a USAMO qualifier will that help at schools other than MIT?</p>
<p>being a USAMO qualifier will probably help at any strong math school (HYPS, Chicago, Duke). I wouldn't count on the ad coms at every LAC knowing what it is. It's always a good idea, even with well-known awards, to establish some sort of context - like "300 qualify out of 200,000 participants".</p>
<p>Thanks. Good Advice.</p>
<p>I should hope that most schools know what USAMO is.</p>
<p>Skyhigh - I would hope so too, but I wouldn't count on it. There are plenty of colleges that have never gotten an application from a USAMO qualifier. And even the "obvious" colleges have admissions reps who majored in English. I went to an info session for Stanford given by a very young, very humanities-oriented admissions rep. I'm pretty sure she didn't know what USAMO is because I mentioned it in the context of a question about the math department and she looked clueless. Fortunately, applicants with unusual math ability are evaluated by math profs at Stanford. But that isn't true everywhere. And even at Stanford someone who majored in English may be the one figuring out which folders to send over to the math profs. Even if an award is well known, like USAMO, to be on the safe side you should spell out what the letters stand for and include some sort of context for it.</p>
<p>One of the math profs that my son talked to told him to put a note on his application that he had talked to him, so admissions would send his application to the math department. He said admissions doesn't always know which applications to send to them for review. This was at an Ivy.</p>
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<p>"He said admissions doesn't always know which applications to send to them for review. This was at an Ivy."</p>
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<p>cookiemom - scary, isn't it?</p>
<p>Most adcoms have humanities backgrounds, so it's important to spell things out.</p>
<p>I would say for sure put it down. It definitely impressed me a lot, so I think it would impress adcoms too.</p>