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<p>Frankly, I completely agree with you and USAMO qualifiers are held in greater prestige than DII/DIII. I think the reason for the OPs irritation is that he was a USAMO qualifier with a lackluster class rank/GPA. His argument is that a DI athlete with the same GPA would be accepted to any school in the country, while he wasn’t despite his Olympiad qualification.</p>