AMC/AIME for Harvard

tokenadult
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:03:43 +0000

I have seen posted on the Harvard Web site (link not at hand at the moment, sorry) thanks given after one year’s admitted class was announced to a math professor who had helped the admissions committee review applicants. This is quite standard at the top math schools–Stanford learned from other colleges that it would be beat in recruiting top math students unless math faculty members reviewed applications. The Harvard admission team is VERY familiar with the AMC tests and what they mean (and with what the corresponding national math tests in other countries mean). But, as Marite has already pointed out in this thread, some outstanding math students have no competition experience whatever, so the admissions committee looks at several aspects of a young person’s involvement in math as part of the admission process for a math-liking applicant.