<p>HI,</p>
<p>I am currently a junior in high school. I recently got the CANADA/USA math camp for my AMC score and i was wondering how prestigious this program is. Does it help on the college app? </p>
<p>I am interested in math and science. Would i benefit more from this or an internship/volunteer at an hospital?</p>
<p>Can any former Math Camp student tell me how their experiences were?</p>
<p>I’m thinking of applying to this camp also, after getting rejected from SSP.</p>
<p>I know 3 people in my school who went. 1 is going to MIT, 1 is going to Caltech, and the third is on track for HYPS.</p>
<p>So the people who go are very self-motivated. The camp is not very selective in terms of its admissions, but nevertheless it is a good experience. Would any past campers like to add on to that?</p>
<p>yea i think it will be a meaningful experience also, but i am not willing to go to a program that isnt very prestigious. </p>
<p>I live in NYC so there are many programs that teach fun classes.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/833186-mathcamp-vs-hcssim-vs-promys-vs-ross-vs-awesomemath.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/833186-mathcamp-vs-hcssim-vs-promys-vs-ross-vs-awesomemath.html</a></p>
<p>Look at post #13 particularly</p>
<p>what’s the acceptance rate for this program like? i read somewhere it was about 30%. thought would actually be a bit lower.</p>
<p>Really? I’m pretty sure that if you show interest in math and done at least half of the problems… you should be able to get in with no problems.</p>
<p>huh… i remember this camp. last summer, my friend, another girl a year above us, and i all applied to it, and only my friend (who was a rising junior) got in.</p>
<p>but, we live in a small town, so they probably couldn’t accept all three of us because we did all the problems and we’re pretty good in math :)</p>
<p>however, what was surprising was that the girl in a year above us got rejected, but she’s incredibly gifted in math/science (she’s taking an online math course her senior year at Johns Hopkins because she has taken all the math courses available at our school and the nearby community college, and our school has had to create extra science classes just for her) and has gotten into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Duke, UChicago, Rice, UPenn, Columbia, Northwestern, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and UT. not only that, but she got a 2400 (1st sitting) on her SAT, 800 on all of her 4 SAT IIs, has gotten 5’s on all 12 AP tests, has a 5.3 gpa (At our school, that means she has gotten a 98 or above on all her classes), and was the state math champion two years in a row.
but on her canada/usa mathcamp app. she WROTE it instead of typing it, while my friend typed hers. i also wrote mine… </p>
<p>and although it was fair enough that i was rejected because of my stats, i don’t think the girl who was in a year above me was unqualified at all, in any way, shape, or form. sooo maybe canada/usa mathcamp is picky over trivial matters? or she just wasn’t what they were looking for?</p>
<p>of course, there’s always the matter that the girl in a year above us was rejected because of a low acceptance rate, but my friend’s stats were nowhere near as good as hers.</p>
<p>Wow over 300 people applied this year for only 60 spots. I never knew Mathcamp was /this/ competitive.</p>
<p>@iceui Did you get accepted?</p>
<p>I rescinded my application because I got into a research program in Texas. It’s free and two weeks longer, so I decided to go there this summer instead.</p>