Ok, so I was just wondering how do you qualify for IMO, b/c it says that there are 4 different test days. Or do we just take USAMO, after first completing AMC 12 and AIME
AIME and USAMO are invitational, meaning you have to score above a certain threshold on the previous exam in order to qualify.
The top 30 or 40 USAMO scorers and the top 12 USAJMO scorers are invited to Math Olympiad Summer Program (MOSP or MOP), and I believe the top 12 USAMO scorers in the country go to Black MOP. Six of these represent the U.S. at the IMO. They changed the IMO selection process a bit recently, so it may be slightly different than this.
Yes, it did change. Now they have the TSTST in which you have to be in the top 18 for the year previous to the year of the IMO. So basically they don't select people from MOP and TST+USAMO anymore.
Also, many blue MOPpers have made IMO before.
Finally, please realize that is nearly impossible to make the IMO from the US, especially considering that you clearly haven't even made the AIME yet.
Yeah, considering that you probably don't have much experience with AMC's, it's very unlikely you'll make the U.S. IMO team without a ton of work.
Then again, it is possible. I know someone named Zarathustra Brady (aka "Zeb"), who won a gold medal at the 2006 IMO, even though he had barely even heard of the AMC's early in high school.
