<p>Does anyone have a sense of what sort of acceptance rate this camp has?
(<a href="http://www.awesomemath.org%5B/url%5D">www.awesomemath.org</a>)</p>
<p>also what is your experience/knowledge between awesome math and mathpath??</p>
<p>as far as i know, acceptance rate is pretty high. if you put effort into the app, you'll get in. i'm decent at math but there were plenty of people below my level (by a significant amount) who were there. i thought i learned quite a bit at awesomemath, more than at mop actually (although i didn't learn much at mop because i was the worst one there)</p>
<p>Can anyone comment on the proportion of kids at various grade levels in the Awesome Math camp? Are most of the students in middle school? Or are most in high school? I'm concerned whether a going-into-11th grade student would be one of the few "older" kids among a lot of middle schoolers. He'd be mortified if that were the case.</p>
<p>yes, i am trying to choose between mathpath and awesome math camp for my 12 yr old mathcounts competitor.any info /advice would be appreciated. or shold he do cty mathcounts online? the art of problem solving course looks great but he is gone some of the summer..(it goes from june to august online)</p>
<p>I think MathPath </p>
<p>Math</a> summer camp program and resource for gifted middle school students | Mathpath </p>
<p>is a wonderful program, and I recommend it highly. I have no experience with AwesomeMath.</p>
<p>I also recommend MathPath. My son went there the summer between 8/9th grade (i.e., he was one of the oldest there). It was a good fit, with students there both miles ahead of him and others less-advanced than he was. For perspective, my son is very talented in math, but not Olympiad material. Many of the students there were at the olympiad level, but certainly not all of them. The staff was very supportive, and it was an excellent experience for him.</p>
<p>I'd still be eager for any perspectives or opinions about Awesome Math from anyone who's been there. My concerns are that it might be less-advanced overall than MathPath was or that it might have a predominance of middle schoolers.</p>
<p>Mine has submitted his test and app. Phew. He is at the level of just managing to be good enough to qualify for the AIME and probably doing fairly well, but not well enough for USAMO. I don't think Awesome will be filled with middle schoolers - and it feels as if the set up is aimed more at early high schoolers.
To kayakmom - I don't think Awesome would be a great choice for a MathCounts kid, unless he/she is doing more advanced work as well. Does he/she know about the AOPS online stuff? That and/or CTY is probably more suited.</p>
<p>we were thinking of having him take the cty advanced mathcounts online course and the AoPS online course as well this summer...</p>
<p>My dd did AwesomeMath in summer 2007 at just-turned 12 and going into 8th grade. She was one of a small group of students that age -- most were older (she thinks around 15). She and one other girl in her apartment both made it to National MathCounts the next year and they were in the lowest group at AwesomeMath. The top level was really amazing, I think.</p>
<p>There were a few kids that were younger that came for a day camp that was half math (with the AwesomeMath kids) and half chess (UTD is known for their chess program). I don't know if they're still doing that.</p>
<p>My daughter chose to apply (and has been accepted) to go back this year, so it was definitely a good experience for her. She is also considering MathCamp.</p>
<p>Note that the "dorms" at UTD are a bit unusual. They're on-campus apartments with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, and a common living/kitchen area. For camp in 2007, the "adult" (mentor/TA/RA/whatever) took one room and they put two twin beds into the other 3 rooms for a max of 6 kids and 1 adult per apartment.</p>
<p>DS did AwesomeMath after 7th grade.
What it did show him was that he was not a math genius he was thinking himself to be. A great experience IMO, made him more humble and he is indeed studying much more math right now :)
He claims he was one of the lower tier kids there, many of them having apparently made it already to MOP. Majority were AIME qualifiers. There were some younger kids there but my S thought they were math prodigies.
He claims that he did not learn much, but I disagree. He has made a HUGE progres over the past year, so whatever AwesomeMath taught him, was well worth the money.
He wants to try something different this year, so we are considering Math Camp. He does not want to do MathPath as he would be one of the oldest there.
Anyone has any insider info about Canada/USA Math Camp?</p>
<p>Reviving this thread…Does anyone have experience with this camp in the last two years?
Would a rising junior be too old? Is it mostly for younger kids and competition? Is it a decent camp to have on a hs resume?</p>
<p>I went to AMSP two years ago and though I don’t remember a lot, I can say that it was definitely not dominated by middle school students. Most of us were in high school, somewhat evenly spread among the grades (though rising seniors were slightly more rare than those in other grades).</p>
<p>The focus is on math that would be useful in competitions. This does have a decent overlap with discrete math (namely, combinatorics and number theory), which is useful not only in higher math itself but also computer science and anything that involves probability. Some classes are focused on problem-solving techniques (my level 2 algebra class), while others focus more on building the theory (my level 1 number theory class).</p>
<p>One of my friends went to AMSP the summer after sophomore year and the summer after junior year. He recently got into Caltech, so I assume they liked that.</p>
<p>sorry to change the topic, but i am in middle school and want to go. (IF i get in,) then will i be too behind? Iv’e only just finished Algebra 1 but participate in MathCounts and AMC. I did not qualify for AIME but I did get on the partial leaderboard for USAMTS. Can I get in? IF so, will everybody be so much better than me?</p>
<p>it might be too late but for middle schoolers I highly recommend mathpath a month long competitive math camp for talented middle schoolers. my son enjoys meeting his old mathpath friends at ISEF sts arml all the math competitions!</p>
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<p>what do they teach at awesome math camp?</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.awesomemath.org/[/url]”>https://www.awesomemath.org/</a></p>
<p>mathpath applications are closed for this year</p>
<p>Does any know how long the two question replies on the registration form for awesome math should be?</p>