<p>i really really want to go to mit, it's one of my top schools. i'd say i'm pretty good at math and science, i get the highest grades at my school for both subjects. i get top scores on my stat's math league and medal in science tournaments</p>
<p>HOWEVERRRR. my amc scores are not so hot. in fact, they're awful. regardless, i am still applying to mit, but should i even bother reporting them? they are... </p>
<p>(please be nice on me)
AMC10: 94.5, and AMC12: 58.5. ew, i know. (i can explain the amc12 though... i have all nighters a lot. i thoroughly remember that day because i was worrying about a test i had the next period while taking it)</p>
<p>so. should i or should i not put it on my app? thanks.</p>
<p>I wouldn't, because I'm not sure that you can explain the all-nighters to MIT without making it a separate essay, can you? Because it's not worth a whole essay to excuse your scores. But if you can and you think that it won't sound like you, well, making radical excuses, then go for it.</p>
<p>I've got the same question -- 108.5 on the 10, 91.5 on the 12...worth it? Pretty close to qualifying for the AIME, but obviously I didn't :P</p>
<p>for you OP, i wouldn't write the AMC 12 score if i were you. there really isn't any point explaining/or excuse that you pull an all-nighter, it was kind of your choice. And furthermore, there are AMC 12 a and b, you could also taken the AMC 12 in 10th grade if you wanted to so you really had more chances if you have taken them. I know people that took it at least 4 or 5 time before they became seniors.</p>
<p>for the AMC10, you can if you wanted to. It's not that great, but well above national average. However, you said you do well in math science classes, that is not going to say how good you really are unless you have things like these contests to beck you up.</p>
<p>to commodore, those scores aren't bad, you could report them. Well it also depends on what kind of picture you are trying to get your app show. I would submit anyways. You are obviously not going to be thought as one of the top top math people, but they show your interest. besides, what they always say, everything is in context!</p>
<p>yea, i wasn't intending to put an explanation for my awful amc12 score on the application. i'm just deciding whether to bother reporting it or not. thanks for the feedback so far though! i really appreciate it.</p>
<p>If you put the 94.5 on your app, it definitely won't help you. So I'd just leave it out. If you leave it out, they might still think you're good at math and that you just never had the time to take the AMCs.</p>
<p>I guess I disagree with the replies above, having read the MIT admission blogs since they were first posted. TAKING the AMC tests shows that you try to challenge yourself academically, and self-reporting the scores, whatever they are, shows that you don't have fragile perfectionist tendencies, and those are both GOOD things in the eyes of the MIT admission officers. But of course, while we are developing a "theory of mind" about the MIT admission committee here, I will defer to the opinion of any of the MIT admission officers who care to post here, and I invite readers to post links to MIT admission blog posts that address this issue.</p>
<p>Oh come on...anyone can have a bad day. I'm impressed the OP's doing these contests - it shows motivation, interest, and a willingness to take on a challenge. I don't think it will hurt, and it may supposrt other parts of the application. I'll admit I have no idea what the MIT admissions staff will think of these scores, but they'd probably like to know the OP participated in the contests.</p>
<p>You know, I was wondering about the AMC 12 my son took as a sophomore and his AIME as a junior. As a sophomore, he just missed AIME qualifying on the AMC 12 with a 94.5 or something like that, might have been 96.5, not sure. it worked out to be one wrong answer with the way they deduct for that. Anyway, he qualified for the AIME that year cause his AMC 10 was just under 140 somewhere, I think 139 something. He then got a 7 on the AIME. As a junior, he got a 119 on AMC 12, then a 6 on the AIME. Would it be better not to give the non-qualifying AMC 12 score he had as a sophomore? Also, does it look bad that his AIME went down a point? He says the test was harder last year, I heard someome at a math contest saying the scores were lower last year, but I'm not sure if that is correct or would be common knowledge to MIT if it is. We know so little about the AIME, I'm not even sure if those scores are decent or not.</p>
<p>For the OP, I would report the AMC 10 but not the 12. The app doesn't seem to have any room for explanations and your AMC 10 looks like it was close to qualifying, but I can't remember for sure, is the cutoff on that 100 like the 12 or 120?</p>
<p>Out of ~126 K students the average score for Grade 11
(~ 55K of the students) was reported as 64 and the
overall average score for female students was 61.6</p>
<p>I don't remember my exact scores, but I'm pretty sure they were somewhere in the 80s. I realize this is quite terrible compared to other posters, but my question is, if I report them will it actually hurt me, or would it show that I at least challenged myself by taking the test?</p>
<p>scottish ....look up your state's stats. if you are from a Region like
Region 0- New england I think... 80's may look bad.... but if you are
from a Region that is not filled with fanatical math nuts an 80 will
look nice and highlight your initiative......? </p>
<p>even in a math-filled
region there are probably many schools that do not focus on this....
so if you are a school top scorer for example it would be good to put that
down ...even if your score were in the 60's :)</p>
<p>...I am guessing that it all boils down to your relative placement and drive
compared to others with similar opportunities.........</p>