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gnrfan · 04-16-2007, 09:50 AM

I read through the posts, and I think USAMO qualifiers should get into MIT. Maybe not CalTech, because CalTech only takes 200. But MIT's class of 1000 should have room for the roughly 100 USAMO qualifiers that graduate each year. (About 160 qualify each year, but I'm assuming that at least some of them are underclassmen.) If the person gets a GPA with only a couple of "B's" and the rest "A'"s, then admission should be automatic.

Those that disagree with me probably have no idea what USAMO is or what it means.

I've actually heard that usamo is a huge boost at caltech and comes close to guaranteeing admission. Not sure if this is true though. One that's for sure is that the usamo qualifiers i know are math geniuses, as in acing calc bc in 8th or 9th grade. Qualifying for usamo shows you can really think logically and outside the box, better than almost anyone. Isn't this invaluable to engineers?

04-16-2007, 09:50 AM	#212
gnrfan Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 301	I read through the posts, and I think USAMO qualifiers should get into MIT. Maybe not CalTech, because CalTech only takes 200. But MIT's class of 1000 should have room for the roughly 100 USAMO qualifiers that graduate each year. (About 160 qualify each year, but I'm assuming that at least some of them are underclassmen.) If the person gets a GPA with only a couple of "B's" and the rest "A'"s, then admission should be automatic. Those that disagree with me probably have no idea what USAMO is or what it means. I've actually heard that usamo is a huge boost at caltech and comes close to guaranteeing admission. Not sure if this is true though. One that's for sure is that the usamo qualifiers i know are math geniuses, as in acing calc bc in 8th or 9th grade. Qualifying for usamo shows you can really think logically and outside the box, better than almost anyone. Isn't this invaluable to engineers?
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