<p>Nothing?</p>
<p>Calc grade? (isn't this more calculation instead of theoretical/conceptual)</p>
<p>SAT II?</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>Without getting any help, try to prove that sqrt(2) is irrational. Your ability to do that (coming from an HS student who has not spent a day in college) is probably much more indicative of success in math than your ability to do the power rule and substitute.</p>
<p>In the UK, we sit something called STEP as a requirement of top maths programmes at institutions such as Cambridge.
It’s said to be a much better indicator of mathematical ability than your high school transcript. </p>
<p>If you pop on to the()student()room.co.uk or google STEP I’m sure that you can find some papers.
I’ve been practicing STEP papers in preparation for the exam this summer. They are quite difficult!</p>
<p>huehuehue32 – Are there any other similar problems you would suggest? (I’ve done that one. :))</p>
<p>Don’t look up help without thinking for a bit, because once you know what to use it will be trivial: Prove that there are an infinite number of prime numbers.</p>
<p>not getting -2 as an answer for every problem</p>
<p>I think most math is proof based, so how well you would do in a discrete mathematics course would be a good indicator I think.</p>
<p>High school GPA, IQ, and socioeconomic status are probably pretty safe bets. If your IQ is 2 standard deviations above the mean (say, >130), you have a good GPA (say, >3.5 unweighted overall and >3.8 unweighted in STEM subjects) and you come from a fairly stable middle- or upper middle-class household (parents not divorced, holding college degrees, one or both works full-time at a white-collar job, you have dinner together, etc.) then the odds are breaking your way.</p>
<p>Aegrisomnia: Spoken like a true math major. </p>
<p>What are the odds for someone who only got a 22 math ACT and has only taken Pre-cal/Trig in high school?</p>
<p>^ Well, it seems to me that Calculus is more or less the gold standard for pre-college applicants; having more is great although unnecessary, while having less, though by no means a deal-breaker, does represent time (2-3 courses) which could otherwise be spent learning other material. Even at my undergraduate institution, which was not prestigious, the majority of honors students had taken Calculus in high school; however, a great many students, among them many mathematics students, had not… so I wouldn’t worry about this, provided that you’re willing to put in the effort at college to make up this time.</p>
<p>Now, a 22 math ACT is a bit more quantifiable. Let’s consider a few different sorts of universities: top universities for STEM, middle-of-the-road universities for STEM, and maybe colleges less renowned for their STEM offerings. We can consider the math ACT scores for such institutions:</p>
<p>School: 25p/75p on the math ACT</p>
<p>Harvard: 31/35
Princeton: 30/35</p>
<p>Stanford: 30/35
Carnegie Mellon: 29/34</p>
<p>University of Michigan: 28/34
Georgia Tech: 28/33</p>
<p>University of Oregon: 21/27
Mississippi State: 18/26</p>
<p>A score of 22 would place you in the norm for schools of the caliber of these last two. Make of that what you will - it might do well to consult career outcomes and graduate surveys for such institutions. See [ACT</a> Score Charts - ACT Score Charts Comparing Data for Admission to Different Types of Colleges](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/theact/p/act-score-charts.htm]ACT”>Good ACT Scores for College Admissions) for more info.</p>