Advice appreciated, criticism

typical
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:55:25 +0000

Thanks for the response. As for AP’s, we don’t have access to those. We will all end up taking IB exams, and none of our classes are AP or honors; they’re all labeled IB. I’m not sure how that will change anything. Also, how do you think I could make math seem more significant? It’s always been one of my strongest subjects, mainly because I can learn it extremely quickly (self-learned geometry in 7th grade for 8th grade). Math competitions are quite different than just subject math; the competitions work by memorizing formulas and different ways to solve problems, because they’re all basically story problems.
Thanks collegealum314 for answering my question about math. Well, the good thing is that I’m probably quite familiar with the question format for the AMC, because I took a course in MathCounts in 8th grade, but I didn’t make the school team (there were around 50-60 people who tried out, they took 12 people, and I was #13) which was really sad for me because all my friends thought I could do it… Anyways, thanks a lot for the input, I appreciate it. It’s better to start now and know what to do!