<p>I know a MOSPper who went to Harvey Mudd. Strange things happen.</p>
<p>vector - it isn't that knowing where this particular group of people went to college has some inherent value to the rest of us. It's more that int'l olympiad type kids are an interesting group of people in their own right. Has anyone read "Countdown" by Steve Olsen? It's about the math olympiad, and more specifically, about the 6 people who were on the 2001 US team.</p>
<p>why is that strange that a mosper went to harvey mudd?</p>
<p>ya.. I have the same question as tongos. Is MOSP like RSI where majority of applicants are accepted?</p>
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<p>"Is MOSP like RSI where majority of applicants are accepted?"</p>
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<p>Yes. It's even more difficult to qualify for MOSP than to be accepted for RSI.</p>
<p>platypeanArchcow: would the harvey mudd MOSPer be named greg by any chance?</p>
<p>first, you have to qualify for USAMO (250 kids), dont you? and then you have to get a decent score on that to go to MOSP (i dont know how many, but around 100 maybe). MOSP is based on your performance on the american math competition tests, while making RSI can be achieved by a lot of things, research, competitions ect... I think RSI is easier, because it provides a little more leg room.</p>
<p>The top 12 on USAMO qualify for MOSP, as well as the next 12-18 non-seniors. So everyone who is invited is in the top 40 or so of USAMO qualifiers, which is already the top ~250 of the ~200,000 people who took the earlier exams. So yes, strictly on percentage of applicants/competitors who end up at each of the programs, main MOSP is much more selective than RSI. </p>
<p>Last year they had enough funding for a special 9th grade MOSP. All USAMO qualifiers in 9th grade were invited to participate, regardless of score. Sort of a farm team. Looks like something along the same lines will be repeated in 2005.</p>
<p>"...obviously he was taken out of our world to help destroy the Matrix and free humanity... d'uh"</p>
<p>hahahaha. like ender? </p>
<p>the IOI person from our school was deferred from Harvard, while another HISPANIC student was accepted. Now, I don't want to rant and rave, but I think there seems to be something fishy going on here.</p>
<p>No, he'd be named Brian.</p>
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<p>"the IOI person from our school was deferred from Harvard"</p>
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<p>Kinetic - Do you mean just this week, or some other year? Both the IOI people applying this year have a lot more stuff than just IOI. A deferral would be pretty surprising (and depressing!)</p>