<p>Past three years, I've gotten 4, 6, 8 on the AIME, but I have never made USAMO. Should I put these scores on the application anyways? Math is not my strongest point, so I was wondering if I should fill in my AIME and AMC 12 scores (123) on the EA App, considering there will be a lot of people with better USAMO indices.</p>
<p>Of course! The application asks for your scores because it's a part of your demonstrated interest in mathematics. If you've participated at the AIME level for <em>3</em> years, you should absolutely include that! I am certain that's beyond the majority of MIT applicants' accomplishments in that area. Sure there are some USAMO participants, but do not discount your results in the AIME. You want to show the Admissions officers who you are, not compare yourself to others whom you believe will be applying. It's fine, do mention it.</p>
<p>I agree with mootmom, you should mention. Those are good scores.</p>
<p>Thanks very much for your replies! This makes me feel a bit better, as I had thought that my AIME scores would be totally useless when applying for MIT. Hopefully, it can convey to the admissions people that I am not TOO bad at math. =</p>
<p>Yeah, you're doing quite well. An 8 on the AIME is nothing to be ashamed about at all, and if you are stronger in a different subject, frankly, you'll probably get into MIT.</p>
<p>It would be a mistake not to report these scores imo.</p>
<p>wow..I only got a 3 and I reported that. hahaha next year will be a doozy.</p>
<p>My son got a 0 the only time he took AIME. He's a sophomore at MIT.</p>
<p>I agree with Mootmom and Texas. The fact that you participated is good and an 8 is impressive (at least to me!).</p>
<p>I got a 3, 4, 5 and I reported them. They can only help you!</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys, now all I have to wait for is for the application to come out in July =)</p>
<p>Yeah I got a 1... and then a 2 this year. I reported the 1. :) Hey, at least I took it.... We only have like 4 or 5 a year from my high school take it. </p>
<p>And I got in, EA. So.... you should definately report your 8. :)</p>
<p>man, a three hour test with 15 questions, ended up with 2 correct. was it really worth getting out of three class periods? hell yeah. a bunch of friends and i just gave up after an hour and messed around in the classroom for the rest of the period. good times...</p>
<p>oh yeah, congratulations on the 8. i can't believe you didnt get into the USAMO.</p>
<p>I think any score higher than 120 on AMC and any score higher than 5 on AIME should be reported! Good luck!</p>
<p>Any score on AIME should be reported. If you've scored high enough on AMC to qualify for AIME, you show interest and some accomplishment in mathematics and should certainly note that.</p>
<p>hmm, if you got a 0 or 1, you might want to just say "qualified for AIME" and leave it at that.</p>
<p>It's MIT... they aren't playing games with you and it'll probably never hurt to report your scores, as long as you're honest :)</p>
<p>That said, it's actually a pretty interesting problem. Say we could ignore both the differences between the AIME pool and the MIT applicant pool and the fact that even taking the AIME shows some interest. First it would seem that MIT would be "expecting" the average score of ~2.7 (2006 data) on the AIME, and therefore anything under that wouldn't be worth reporting. Then, though, they'd have a new expected value for people who didn't report their scores, and it'd really only be worth not-reporting if you were under that... very quickly, the integral nature of the scores would become very relevant. Clearly no one would ever want to report a zero (on the assumptions made earlier). But is it possible that under ideal conditions, not reporting would be exactly equivalent to a zero? (...help, someone who can talk about game-theoretic stuff without sounding really dumb?)</p>
<p>Texas, that's exactly what my son did!</p>