<p>Hi I'm a high school junior. I just started looking into math camps over the past month and I was wondering if someone/some people could help me out in deciding what camp I should go to/ what math camps I can get into. I am ranked at the top of my class in math. I really enjoy mathematics in general and hope to become a math major or something that involves math. I am currently taking AP Calculus BC. I have received a 770 on the SAT math section. However, I took the AMC 12 in February, but I don't think I scored very high since I didn't really know what I was walking into when I went to take the test and I hadn't studied for it at all. (From looking at the answer guide, i'm guessing I scored around 70 pts, not sure though)</p>
<p>Anyways, I just want to know what math camps I should apply to. Do you think I have a chance getting into a more prestigious math camp like PROMYS, HCSSIM, or Awesomemath? From what I've seen on the forums, they seem to be extremely competitive.</p>
<p>Also, the main reason I want to do these math camps is to prepare me for the Siemen's competition that I plan on competing in next year.</p>
<p>If i can't get into a prestigious math camp, do you think I still have a shot at performing well if i go to a less well known math camp? </p>
<p>thank you so much!</p>
<p>It’s hard to say from what you posted whether you’ll get into a prestigious math camp although I think AwesomeMath is considerably less selective than the others. </p>
<p>If you want to go to these camps to do research you can submit for Siemens you may be disappointed anyways as I don’t think they focus too much on research.</p>
<p>what other kinds of information might be important to put up?</p>
<p>I’m not personally familiar with those camps but at least at Ross and I assume this is true at those camps as well the application problems are the most important part of the application. Thus, whether you can get in or not depends largely on how you can do on the application problems. The issue is what the application problems test and what the camps are looking for is mathematical insight. That kind of insight is rarely needed in high school math classes even stuff like AP Calc. That kind of insight is more related to math competitions but in competitions experience is likely to trump whatever natural abilities people have. Bottom line there are going to be plenty of people with stats like that who get in math camps like Ross, PROMYS, HCSSIM and there will be plenty of people with those kind of stats who won’t. My advice would be to try the application problems and if you can do them you have at least a decent shot. If you can’t do most of the problems that you probably should look at less selective camps.</p>