<p>hey, i have taken the International Maths Olympiad (IMO)</p>
<p>and have received a 90.35 percentile on that.
Assuming that i am applying to
Berkeley, U Illinois Urbana Champaign, Georgia tech, UT Austin, Nat U of Singapore,</p>
<p>do you think it would seriously help me in getting admitted or would they think that a 90 percentile is bad to some extent and can pull me down instead?</p>
<p>IMO is a big hook. As long as your grades are decent you should be able to get into all of those easily.</p>
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<p>What that means will depend on the difficulty of the national IMO team selection, the quality of local training opportunities, and on the performance at the IMO. Being the #1 student from Luxembourg is a lot easier to accomplish than being the lowest ranking team member from China, but for the Luxembourgeois to attain a gold medal or silver medal would be more impressive due to the lesser training.</p>
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<p>He scored 90th percentile there. He’s clearly one of the top students in the IMO and that’s a huge deal.</p>
<p>Actually, I am from India which is full of IMO nerds, so universities may expect more out of an Indian student.</p>
<p>And i didn’t know they had national teams or anything. If they do, i am certainly not in it. I don’t really know much about the IMO- I just gave it, without prep.</p>
<p>Its kind of funny because I didn’t know when the test was. On d-day there was just an announcement saying that i had to give the IMO on that day.</p>
<p>I think he means he took part in the IMO qualifier. I do not think that it will help you at all because, even though 90th percentile is high, there are many people, especially from India, that take it even if they are not remotely qualified to make it thus boosting your percentile. Furthermore, I believe that 4 or 5 people get selected for the national team, so 90th percentile out of the number of people who took the test, though impressive, will not be that much of a hook. Personally, I wouldn’t mention it, because its counterpart, somewhat, is the AMC12. 95th percentile in that gets you into AIME, and so forth, so, essentially, getting above the 90th percentile in the AMC12 is no big deal.</p>
<p>Yeah, it doesn’t sound like you participiated in IMO.</p>
<p>I did the IMO from the SOF orgainzation. I am quite sure it is different because there is nothing such as a qualifying round, or nationals- its just one test given by kids all around the world and nothing more</p>
<p>SOF is an organization that runs competitions in India including one called “International Mathematics Olympiad” (the better known IMO with teams from many countries is, I think, short for International Mathematical Olympiad). This is different, and possibly a lot less selective, than reaching the India IMO team or IMO training camp (IMOTC). </p>
<p>That’s not to say that 90+ percentile on the SOF-IMO is easy to attain, but for anyone outside India to understand what that performance means one would have to correlate it with the India math olympiad, IMOTC, and international IMO — how many of the top India math olympiad competitors participate in the SOFIMO, what ranks they generally attain (and how the 90+ percentile SOF-IMO contestants fare in the national olympiad), and what the difficulty of the problems is compared to India-MO or international IMO. </p>
<p>[Science</a> Olympiad Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Olympiad_Foundation]Science”>Science Olympiad Foundation - Wikipedia)
<a href=“http://sofworld.org/imosyllabus.html[/url]”>http://sofworld.org/imosyllabus.html</a></p>
<p>Getting above a 90th percentile in the amc 12 IS a big deal</p>
<p>Did you actually take the IMO? If so, 90th percentile would make you a gold medalist, which would be a huge hook - MIT and Caltech would not even be reaches for you assuming you had the requisite grades and SATs. However, by the sound of it I don’t think you took the IMO, so I’m not sure, you would probably need to explain it on your applications.</p>
<p>i had got 94 percentile , though my teacher considered it low. i don’t know whether it will be helpful or not but my math teacher has mentioned about it in the recommendation letter.</p>
<p>i am happy for having my first post :-)</p>
<p>I don’t want to crush your dreams, but you are going to have to do more than that. Only SIX applicants from India got into MIT last year, all of whom were on the real international math olympiad team. It doesn’t sound like you were on the actual IMO.</p>
<p>The IMO you are talking about is not the one that colleges love.
The IMO colleges look at is the International Math Olympiad, which countries participate in by sending one team of six people in high school (or younger, if that kid were a super genius).
That program is super prestigious, and if you qualify you’re basically set for schools like Harvard, MIT, and Caltech.</p>
<h1>14 - He gave us a list of the schools he’s applying to. Notice how it doesn’t include MIT?</h1>
<p>Yea my bad. I only noticed after.</p>