<p>Hi</p>
<p>Compared to other students at MIT, I bet I'm pretty much the average asian kid. Here's a summary of my stats:</p>
<p>SAT: 800 M, 730 CR, 770 W
SAT II: 800 Math 2C, 700 Chemistry
GPA: 4.0/4.0 UW; AP Scholar with distinction (taken twice as many APs as my school offers)
Junior year AMC12 score: something like 115?
Junior year AIME: 4</p>
<p>ECs
Volunteer Math tutor (at my high school and at the library, also volunteer at SAT Math classes)
Teaching a math class at a middle school during the school day
Coaching a MATHCOUNTS team at the same middle school after school
Student council, math team founder/pres, judo team, debate team, speach team, book club</p>
<p>In the past few months, I've been studying the Art of Problem Solving, and am even taking classes from AoPS. Right now I'm scoring ~130 on AMC12s and ~7 on AIMEs, so I'm expecting to be a USAMO qualifier by the time spring comes.</p>
<p>How should I do my MIT application if I want them to know that there's a very high chance of me becoming a USAMO qualifier (or AIME high scorer?) I'm afraid that if I do early action, I might get flat-out rejected based on my current stats. However, if I do regular, I might be able to send in a note while they are in the middle of reviewing RD applications showing a high AMC12 score in my senior year </p>
<p>Thanks for your advice!</p>
<p>Almost nobody is flat-out rejected, and those who are were simply unqualified.<br>
I would say that a person who would be rejected early would be someone who the adcom really couldn't admit even if they wanted to - quite low grades, non-challenging courseload, very low test scores, etc. If you know MIT is your top school, go ahead and apply early. If you're rejected early, it means there is something in your application that even a later award won't redeem (and nothing you posted here is such a glaring weakness as that).</p>
<p>Yeah go ahead and do EA. The bigger problem is how to sound credible saying, "I'm almost positive I'm gonna qualify for USAMO this year" when your selection index from last year was 62 points less than the cutoff. I guess notify them of your senior year AMC 12 score. The 2007 AIME should be on March 6 which gives you very little time to get your results and tell MIT. Regardless of the outcome, congratulations on the great improvement. How much and how often have you been studying.</p>
<p>Go ahead and EA Stanford</p>
<p>I don't think your expectation to qualify for USAMO is going to be relevant to MIT. If colleges took into consideration, students' expectations, tutors' predictions, and practice test results, there would be total chaos. Also if the test is in March, it will be too late to affect the decision, in my opinion.<br>
for the decision letter to be out April first, the decisions are generally made by then, since the work in putting together the acceptance packages is time consuming.</p>
<p>MIT decision letters are actually generally out in mid-March; RA selection began in mid-February this year and ended in early March, and decisions came out March 17.</p>
<p>You can send in supplemental information any time before selection begins.</p>
<p>I'm not convinced that 130/7 will qualify for USAMO, only in a very tough year</p>
<p>EDIT: or are they taking more people to the USAMO then they used to?</p>
<p>I think the OP is saying that bc he has improved to 130/7 already and he has 5+ months before the contest begins, he will further improve enough to qualify for USAMO. The problem with that logic is that the OP could reach a plateau and not improve anymore. To be safely in USAMO range he would need to improve his SI to around 218.</p>
<p>When do you find out if you qualified for the USAMO?</p>
<p>Sometime between March 26, 2007 (the date of the alternate AIME II) and April 22, 2007 (the first day of USAMO).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc/whatswhen.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.unl.edu/amc/whatswhen.html</a>.</p>
<p>You find out about USAMO during spring break here (which is like the beginning of April). And I'd like to point out that while everyone's concerned about him making the USAMO next year, that he already has a decent application, even without it. Good luck man :)</p>
<p>they actually are expanding USAMO in 2007, because of some extra funding they got from Art of Problem Solving. <a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com</a></p>
<p>Meaning it's easier to qualify? (crossing fingers)</p>
<p>The date of that post was 1/18/06, so the changes have already taken place. And given that the SI cutoff this year was 217, I don't think that the extra spaces really make it much easier qualify.</p>
<p>AMC rules are changing also. Instead of 2.5 points for omitted answers, I believe now it's 1.5 points. Might want to check on that..I'm not totally sure.</p>