<p>Qualifying for USAMO looks good.</p>
<p>If I (hypothetically speaking) get like a honorable mention/winner on the USAMO (top 24 in the US), is that basically a guarentee to get into any college in the US (as long with a respecable GPA, SAT, ...)?</p>
<p>^^ Just so you know, I heard that MIT rejected someone who did just that. Could have been a myth, I dunno.</p>
<p>Anyone can be denied admission at any college for any reason or no reason at all. Moral of the story: apply to more than one college of interest, and be sure to apply to at least one sure-bet "safety" college.</p>
<p>hi! i'm a foreigner (indian citizen in singapore)
i tried AMC and AIME for the first time (and had no idea about the prestige value etc. and hence, did not prepare)
i managed to get 115.5 on the AMC (decent, but not super-damn-good) and 9 on the AIME (again, the same thing) and qualified for USAMO based on merit but couldn't take it due to non-american citizenship. my aggregate was 205.5 and the cut-off was 202 or smth...
is that considered exceptional performance?
can i specify that it was my first attempt at these tests ever?
how can i find what my percentile on this test is?
will it really boost my chances to say that i topped my school for both AMC, AIME and of course for the combined score and was the first ever to qualify for USAMO from my school (a top-5 school in singapore)</p>
<p>Looking forward to a prompt reply! :)
Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>A score of 9 on the AIME is very good.</p>
<p>even for a foreign student?
and should i mention that i qualified for the USAMO on my first attempt; but couldn't do it? please answer the questions in my previous post. thanks a lot in advance! :)</p>
<p>Don't bother mentioning any of the "first attempt" stuff. Let the score speak for itself. The colleges that care about this issue know what AIME scores qualify for USAMO and know what the citizenship rules are.</p>
<p>If you live in Singapore, you might also want to try this - Singapore</a> Mathematical Society - SIMO Home Page.</p>
<p>Thanks shravas; I actually did the SMO this year (Singapore Math Olympiad) and got 13 points out of 25. Expecting a Silver or a Gold (unlikely) medal! Is it VERY prestigious? (I do math olympiads not really knowing how "big" they are in terms of value) LOL!</p>
<p>probably? lol. but being an international you'll still get pwned with college admissions anyways</p>
<p>LOL! thanks, mann! that was soooo encouraging... hehe! :P</p>
<p>hey,
I'm going to be a senior this fall, and could any one tell me @ AMC 12?? how hard was it? and do u need some estosteric math knowledge in order to score?
Which one is easier, A or B?</p>
<p>You won't need "esoteric" math knowledge to score well. You can get 100+ (i.e. qualify for AIME) without knowing anything beyond what you learn in the classroom. Scoring extremely well (140-150 range) probably requires knowing some techniques that are along the same lines as what you learn in classroom, but can be brought to bear on more complex and tricky problems. (Examples of techniques I'd put in this category include theorems about the medians of a triangle; modular arithmetic, Viete's Theorem, etc.) Plenty of people from my school took AMC12 without any competition training and put up respectable scores, in many cases qualifying for AIME.</p>
<p>The difficulty of the A and B exams is as equal as the committee can make them. I know the process for AIME-I and -II is that they write an "AIME heads" and "AIME tails" and then when they're done, flip a coin to determine which is the AIME-I. I'm guessing a similar process is used for the 12A and 12B.</p>
<p>ok. thank you so much guys!! this willl be my first time doing any some math competition.</p>
<p>^^ Sly Si: Not try about the 100+ with classroom knowledge. Depends on the school. The only pre-calculus math class I took at my school was geometry, and when competing on the AMC two years in a row (first time my school has taken the tests), I got the best score on AMC12, and only barely qualified for AIME this year. Probably strong schools teach similar problem-solving skills in class, but other schools definitely do not...</p>
<p>I meant that you don't need to know any special techniques, theorems, or formulas beyond the ones you cover in class. You definitely still need to learn how to apply those in new ways, which is the challenge of the thing.</p>
<p>i tried some...and some problems looks like you could solve it or is wayy to bigg to solve it, but it takes on some trick in order to solve it. like this problem:
which of the following is equal of the product (8/4)<em>(12/8)</em>(16/12).....(4n+4/4n).....(2008/2004)?
and at first glance, i thought it was a huge problem or something that i might have to multiply all of them or use the formula....but on closer look...you only need to cancel out all the numerators and denominators excep the first and last terms....lol. and i got 502 = 2008/4...</p>
<p>wildchartermage - You should know that senior year AMC and AIME tests are too late for college admissions. Most applications are due by early January, and many schools have had made their decisions by mid-March.</p>