<p>I didn’t make USAMO this year (I did use Art of Problem Solving quite a bit, however, I bought volume 2 and studied out of that) I got 111 on the AMC 12 and 7 on the AIME, which is pretty respectable, , but not quite good enough to make usamo 
I should have done more practice exams. but yeah, AOPS is a really good resource. There’s a lot of smart people (dare I say geniuses?) on the forums there. </p>
<p>I think those scores will still look good to colleges, though, and it was actually fun to study for, I learned a lot of math I never would have touched otherwise</p>
<p>and I’m not going to be taking the AP music theory test this year… though I’m still self-studying for calculus and european history (I think I can manage 5s on both of them). I didn’t want to do music theory this year because I couldn’t sight sing or write melodic transcriptions as quickly as the test required and I didn’t have time to practice</p>
<p>and I kind of bombed the rest of my goals- I never wrote that essay (too much work) and both my solo and quartet didn’t do so hot at solo contest…</p>
<p>but I got 3rd place in another music contest, so that should help make up for it, right? And our knowledge bowl team just got 2nd at state… so that should look good too.</p>