f9x9

Reasonabledad: That's pretty cool. I'll look into that.

Ben: Do you think that I still have a chance for the Axline scholarship?

simfish

Thanks for the advice, f9x9. I don't think colleges reward credit to community college courses though - since community college courses are seen as easy (and personally, I would prefer to take a distance course rather than to face a long ride to a community college, when I want to delay driving as long as possible). But how would a college level course in high school benefit someone? If credit isn't awarded, at least taking upper-level courses does show passion. ANd some universities offer exams - so one could place out of them if the person is strong in math.

Ben Golub

> Ben: Do you think that I still have a chance for the Axline scholarship?

Most candidates for that have a lot of what you have AND research AND lots of extraurric clubs (although your non-science extracurrics aren't as meager as you think). So it would be a stretch. But there's always hope, especially with really outstanding essays and whatnot.

alphacdcd

Princeton and Yale are the only non-technical schools to receive more that 14 apps per slot. The PR ranks the toughest schools to get into as follows:

The PR top 20 this year are:

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Princeton University
3 California Institute of Technology
4 Yale University
5 Harvard College
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 Stanford University
8 Swarthmore College
9 Duke University
10 Columbia University - Columbia College
11 Georgetown University
12 Brown University
13 Pomona College
14 Amherst College
15 Dartmouth College
16 University of California-Berkeley
17 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
18 Harvey Mudd College
19 Emory University
20 University of Virginia

f9x9

Oh, wait, this may seem unimpotant, but I'm putting up my SAT II's :
(800 Math IIc, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry, 720 Writing)

tokenadult

This is a very interesting thread. In regard to simfish's first comment on the applicant who opened the thread, I think that is influenced by the Brand X Web site where he and many other math-eager young people hang out. Simfish and I and other people who hang out on that site get so used to reading about superphenomenal math people that we forget what level of achievement might be enough for what is, after all, a college application to be an undergraduate who receives instruction rather than to be a professor who provides instruction.

I, too, congratulate the OP on the year-on-year AIME score gain--I'm cheering on the young people who will be taking the AIME on Tuesday. Thanks to Ben for putting the numbers into perspective.

tokenadult

You are in the United States, right? Could you kindly tell me how one applies to the IIT universities while in the United States? (I beg the pardon of people who expect discussion of Caltech here on this Caltech forum. ) We are not desis here--our children are of mixed "white" American and Taiwanese ancestry--but I am very supportive of seeking out multicultural learning experiences, and I am wondering how an American would apply to test into IIT.

I attended Caltech's regional information meeting in my town this school year (he said to return to the topic of the forum) and met a man who was a math major at Caltech and who knows lives in our town (where he grew up) designing REALLY COOL 3-D graphics software that everyone in the animation industry has heard of. A local boy, just turned thirteen years old, is studying the software in one local college class while taking the U. of MN accelerated math course for high school students, which the Caltech alum in town had done before he went off to Caltech. He is eager to go to Caltech, and that may rub off on my son, who sees him in both of those local courses.

Congratulations on your achievements to date, good luck on the AIME, and welcome over to Brand X :cough:Art of Problem Solving:cough: for practice in problem solving.

freebird

r u really interested in going to IITs.
Do the american applicants have to give 2 exams: 1 objective and then subjective.
I have given the exams in India and had got thru. I was just curious.
Very impressive record 9X9