<p>Can MIT and other colleges check your AMC/ AIME scores? I received 123 on the AMC 12B which I'm happy with but scored only a 4 (I think) on the AIME. If I choose to omit my AIME score on the app, can MIT still check up on my scores? If so, where's the official website? There are so many ppl with 12's on the AIME that earning a 4 (which is supposedly good) looks really weak.</p>
<p>A 4 on the AIME is a perfectly acceptable score, including for MIT! </p>
<p>No need to be overly-dramatic: just the fact that you were invited to take the AIME is an achievement in itself. MIT won't check up on your scores, list what you know them to be. And do NOT leave off your 4 on the AIME!</p>
<p>I think my son got a zero the first year he qualified for the AIME. He can't have done too brilliantly last year either as no one bothered to tell him what his score was, and he never got around to asking.</p>
<p>I'm actually not sure about that 4. My math teacher never told me but I saw the answers a few days after the test and pretty sure I scored 4. Any other replies? I remember a thread about this topic a few months ago...someone said that there was an actual book of all the scores of ppl who took the AMC.</p>
<p>if u aren't sure, make sure to find out for sure before writing anything on that holy app. =]</p>
<p>Haha, so I had to hunt down my score on the...AMC, I think. The non-invitational one? Because I never did well enough to qualify anyway, I never knew what my score was. But I was like, "hey look, there's a space for it on the application!" so I wasted a lot of time asking different math teachers to track down the paperwork from past years and figure out what I got. Like I said, I never even did well enough to get invited to the next level of competition, but I put my scores down anyway, and I still got in.</p>
<p>Man, I should really just make a list of "dumb things I did on my MIT application that would make the average CC user freak out." You guys worry too much.</p>
<p>Well, students who don't worry are less likely to post in the first place.</p>
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<p>OMG! I came really close to doing the same thing! I took the AMC-10 freshman year and never found out my score. But I never bothered to hunt down my score... I think I just might've simply forgotten. So the space remained blank. And I got in too! :D</p>
<p>Haha, well, one of my friends forgot his AMC score and got like a 1 on his AIME score, so his application spot looked like:</p>
<p>AMC: FOR
AIME: GOT</p>
<p>Granted, he didn't get in (for other reasons), I thought it was hilarious.</p>
<p>^Oh man...
I was kind of hoping he'd get in too.</p>
<p>Well... I assure you that's not the reason he was rejected. This kid waited until like four days before the application deadline to write his essays. Kinda weird, considering MIT was his dream school. It was kinda sad too, because he worked so hard getting ranked in the top 1% of a graduating class of ~1000 only to blow off all of his applications until the week before they were due (or in some cases, the day). He's a cool dude, and is going to great college now, but still... I'm sure if he put more work into his application...</p>
<p>there is a book of AMC results, but it only lists AMC 10/12 scores high enough for honorable mention or better, and AIME scores of 6 or better. It is questionable whether MIT even has the book (AMC does not send them to colleges). Lower scores cannot be confirmed at all. I don't think anyone should lie or put down a guestimate for a score, but don't get too hung up on the score either. Plenty of people get into MIT w/o having done math competitions.</p>
<p>An AIME score of 4 would be in the top half of AIME scorers, who are already the top 5% or so of AMC scorers. So yes, definitely put down the 4.</p>
<p>Hey,
How did you guys prepare?
Right now I'm studying from AoPS Vol. 1 and next year I'll be a freshman. Do you think I should just wait for 1 year to hone my skills, then take AMC 10 in Sophomore year? How hard exactly is it... I'm so scared :D</p>
<p>It isn't too bad. I never did anything to prepare and I still qualify for the AIME and was the only female to make it to the top ten at my school. However, the ones who make it to USAMO are usually the ones who went to math camp and did a bunch of preparation.</p>
<p>Take the AMCs every chance you have. You can only get better with practice.</p>
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there is a book of AMC results, but it only lists AMC 10/12 scores high enough for honorable mention or better, and AIME scores of 6 or better. It is questionable whether MIT even has the book (AMC does not send them to colleges). Lower scores cannot be confirmed at all. I don't think anyone should lie or put down a guestimate for a score, but don't get too hung up on the score either. Plenty of people get into MIT w/o having done math competitions.
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<p>Really? I never knew such a book existed. What its called?</p>
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"Summary of High School Results and Awards". Each registered school gets one (or two if they register for both A and B dates). But they are not published or distributed to the general public.</p>
<p>I think anyone can order the Summary of High School Results and Awards book for each year from the AMC Web site. It's just another AMC publication.</p>
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I think anyone can order the Summary of High School Results and Awards book for each year from the AMC Web site. It's just another AMC publication.
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of course, that would be true. I was thinking more like you can't order it from Amazon like a regular book. And I know they don't automatically send them to colleges (or routinely get orders for them from colleges) because I asked that question one year when my group's results were left out. Checking the AMC website, you can order the summary of results for $10 at <a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc/d-publication/d6-books/testsoln.html#17%5B/url%5D">http://www.unl.edu/amc/d-publication/d6-books/testsoln.html#17</a></p>
<p>ChaosTheory---you're reading AoPS? That book is really hard. If you can master it, you can probably quality for AIME.</p>