<p>well,i have not given my college counselor any diplomas of hte awards that i mention in my app to MIT. By this I mean that for instnce i mention that I have qualified for the AIME but i have not given her the diploma i was given. My question is, do adcoms call the counselor and ask her to validate the ec's-awards the student mentions?
thank u very much</p>
<p>OK. You don't need to give them that stuff. The admission office already has more than enough work to do with their record number of applicants, so you really don't need to give them extra work to process. (Btw, why does every CCer on MIT's thread freak out about the AIME/AMC? It's not like everyone does that, so just by taking it shows that you have the initiative to learn and challenge yourself!) </p>
<p>You're only asked to list your scores on MIT's app. It's basically based on an honor system, so they assume that you don't lie (aka if you have a C in math and you tell them that you got a 120 on the AMC 12 and a 5 on the AIME ... I think that they would get a little suspicious ... don't you?). The honor system also applies for ECs, and MIT only asks for 5 of these ... the ones that matter most to you. They can also confirm your EC involvement based on what your teachers and counselor wrote about you.</p>
<p>Also, when you take the AMC, from what I remember, they have an option or a check box where you can fill it in if you want your scores sent to colleges (for free, unlike College Board). By checking that box off, colleges can also confirm your scores that way because they'll receive a sort of transcript from AMC. </p>
<p>I hope this helps! Qualifying for the AIME is an impressive feat by itself. Only 8500 high school students get that honor, and not every one of them applies to MIT! (Heck, I missed the AIME qualifying by 1 question last year!)</p>
<p>thanks!!really helpful!so i dont really have to give my counselor the awards etc..i asked this because i have heard that adcoms so ask for validation for most of the ec's awards</p>
<p>You are very welcome, and good luck!</p>
<p>huh you got a diploma for the AIME? i did not</p>
<p>I wasn't aware of a diploma for the AIME either, since I didn't get one either.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, you either get a letter from AMC saying that you qualified for the AIME or your school gets a certificate, and it's up to your math teacher to give it to you, but it seems that most people simply forget about it. </p>
<p>It's just the AMC! It's not life.</p>
<p>you know, if MIT really wanted to find out, they could just call University of Nebraska, since they have all the data...not your school.</p>
<p>Besides AIME is trivial (it wont really help or hurt you), unless of course you get something like 7+</p>
<p>AIME isn't trivial ... you don't need a 7+ just to be seen as "good at math." Just by taking the test (even scoring a 90-ish on the AMC 12) you are better than people with an 800 on both the SAT Math and SAT Math 2. It's been talked about here on the MIT post MANY times.</p>
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<p>But is it a coincidence that it's basically NEVER talked about at MIT? =]</p>
<p>Anyway, I didn't get a certificate or anything either, and my guidance counselor didn't really know anything about me, so if MIT had called her to try to check on anything I'd said on my application I doubt I'd have gotten in. For all your college apps, unless something on the app really doesn't check out (like you say you're president of your class or something, but NONE of your recommendations mention it) then they're not likely to check.</p>
<p>And the AIME really isn't a huge deal. A lot of the people I know here hadn't even heard of it.</p>
<p>so montagne you was not asked to give any diplomas to your school so he could forward them to the school??</p>
<p>Not a single one, and I have never heard of anyone ever having been asked for that.</p>
<p>I don't think I had any "diplomas", per se, to send...</p>
<p>Wait sorry, I didnt mean to say that making the AIME was useless. What I mean is that I do not think it will make a big difference in MIT admissions unless you get a very high score. Scores of like 90 AMC-4 on the AIME are not really that big of a difference. So you guys should worry about other things than this test unless you can do really well on it.</p>