<p>There are about 250 USAMO qualifiers every year, which makes being a USAMO qualifier only slightly more impressive than being an USNPho semifinalist (top 400-ish) and less impressive than receiving honors in USNCho (top 150). What impresses me most is that he qualified for the USAMO in his freshman and sophomore years.</p>
<p>A lot more people try out for USAMO though.</p>
<p>Just throwing this into the mix- a third grader form texas qualified for USAMO.</p>
<p>I looked up the USAMO lists and I too found someone I know who goes here who qualified for it in 10th grade. Well I’m impressed.</p>
<p>when I was in the 7th grade, I competed in a spelling bee with anurag kashyap (he went on to win nationals in the scripps howards national spelling bee later.). freakin insane but he was this cute little chubby kid with round little cheeks, haha.</p>
<p>i wish i had a brain :(</p>
<p>^ Did you lose because they asked if you could spell his name?</p>
<p>Precisely, my friend.</p>
<p>Okay, maybe I came off the wrong way about “being smart” and getting good grades. To me, being smart is something along the lines of how hard my friends and I work, not just in classes, but in other things like research. I know juggling classes, research, and extracurriculars isn’t easy, so that’s what I find admirable, especially since most of us put in 20+ hours a week on our research. So I take back that comment about upper division courses and the grade averages. </p>
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<p>All of you people? Really, you’re going to make such a generalization? </p>
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<p>No, not really. (Very few undergraduates have an A- average in CoC.) We’re all pretty humble and are pretty modest about our grades. And we don’t think we’re the **** either because, well, we just all work hard…so please don’t make those comments about my friends because you don’t even know them. </p>
<p>Don’t be such a ******bag.</p>
<p>Wait, ***?! W4C, are you from Rancho Bernardo? I know Anurag…</p>
<p>haha you know him??? as in he’s your friend?? what is he like-personality wise? </p>
<p>i was in the district spelling bee with him. he looked like he was bored.</p>
<p>but no, im not from Ranch Bernardo. I used to live in that general vicinity, but ive moved since then for HS and beyond, lol.</p>
<p>What animals live in Bernardo’s ranch?</p>
<p>You judge people’s intelligence based on how smart they sound at a reception?</p>
<p>To be honest, they were all annoying little twats bragging about how they spent soooo many summers in high school cleaning test tubes as part of their “internship”.</p>
<p>agreed with the posts that say the smartest people are hiding it. my friend’s brother is at Berkeley for engineering and he always sets the curve, but he doesn’t ever tell anyone it’s him setting the curve.</p>
<p>Once again . . setting the curve has nothing to do with being smart T_T</p>
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Maybe the guy cares about his personal safety.</p>
<p>^^ lawls…</p>
<p>coco also fails to mention that his brother’s friend is the professor of the class</p>
<p>Coco, what is the name of your friend’s brother who set the curve?</p>
<p>caiacs, you realize that it’s sort of (no, very creepy) to gush about some guy in your math class on a public forum?</p>