<p>Seriously dude? I thought by now you’d realize we can’t give you a number. Your SATs are fine. Is there anything else in particular you’d like to hear from us? Is there a reason you can’t wait until you get your decision back, like the rest? </p>
<p>Sorry for sounding rude, but bumping a 4 month-old thread to show off your math achievements and to be patted on the head with “you have a decent chance of getting in” is just not cool…</p>
<p>Oh. Thanks for replying. 
I didn’t exactly wish to ‘show off’, and apologize if this has come across the wrong way.
It’s just that there have been some developments over the past few months, and I wished to ascertain if they significantly affected my chances.
Btw, I haven’t applied yet, as I believe international applicants can only apply RD.</p>
<p>As for my SAT score, I was going through the scores of some accepted candidates, and I thought my score was lower than the accepted norm [although I understand international applicants may get some benefit of doubt in CR and writing]. </p>
<p>Thanks anyway. :)</p>
<p>Your SAT scores are all within our 25-75% ranges. I don’t see how your continual expressions of your own accomplishments in mathematics can be construed as anything other than “showing off”. </p>
<p>You understand that all the posters who are even Caltech students have already replied to your thread. We don’t do “chances”. All you’re getting at this point is random other high schoolers who are giving you misguided ego boosts. </p>
<p>I have no idea if admissions has seen this thread. Odds are that they have, but if you keep bumping this thread I’m going to make sure that they do. Last time I checked, admissions wasn’t a huge fan of undeserved arrogance.</p>
<p>“developing my own branch of analysis”</p>
<p>w.t.f. - have you ever taken an actual course in analysis?</p>
<p>Techy233
No. I haven’t. However, the IB Diploma Math course gives one a nice introduction to functions and relations. I followed that up by reading some undergraduate texts on analysis- topics like limits, integration inequalities, etc.
I came across various different definitions of functions and limits, and I thought of an original idea to develop my own alternative definition. You can read the subsequent posts to get the rough idea.</p>
<p>lizzardfire
My main question in my previous posts was that will my less than impressive performance in the Singapore Math Olympiad have a detrimental effect on my application. This is in light of the fact that only SMO winners generally get accepted in reputed tech schools. With all due respect, I hardly call this ‘showing off’.
Anyway, this will be my last post, so that I get loads of free time to deflate my bloated ego.
Adieu :)</p>
<p>I am not saying you have an inflated ego. Actually, I haven’t read most of the posts in this thread. But if you have not taken analysis (I’m not talking about calculus, (including multivariate, DE, etc)) how do you know that your work is original? There is so much math out there. Without first being exposed to differential geometry, real analysis, topology, - essentially, post-UG math you can’t make such huge claims. At the very least, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And finally, as you well know, many identical concepts in math can be expressed in many different ways. </p>
<p>OTOH, if some of the claims I read above are completely accurate, you should be getting a MacArthur Genius Grant by the time you’re 18 :O</p>
<p>Ayush–It’s terrific that you are interested in mathematics. The thing is that no matter how brilliant you are, a lot of math is just about sitting down and learning for huge stretches. Until one has spent several years sitting down <em>inside</em> a university like Caltech, it is hard to know what is considered “deep” in the mathematical world. Even when folks apply to graduate school in math, professors (who’ve said so themselves) have scoffed when students mention precisely what problems they want to work on in graduate school. There is simply no substitute to experience in deciding things like that, and so really no matter how brilliant, a student is best off waiting until later to make claims of discovery within the field. A large part of research (of course coming from someone with humble background only) really is figuring out what are the right things to think about.</p>
<p>So making claims of discovery of another field of math at the high school age would probably make a professor quite skeptical of the student’s attitude. Some of the absolute best mathematicians alive today (and mark my words, I have this specifically from them) agree that it is best to spend one’s undergraduate years just learning good things…and frankly given their brilliance, one might even expect them to advocate a much more aggressive, hurried approach to learning math and getting into research. Try your hand at solving some toy hard problems, and it’ll tell you something about yourself, but it doesn’t make sense in some ways to try to do things like discover new fields until one is past the grad school stage. Enjoy what you’re doing, but it is not yet the time to report all the new findings you’ve made. In particular, you should save those thoughts for a professor, out of interest and curiosity, and not post it on an admissions forum.</p>