Amc, Aime, Usamo

apathy
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:17:10 +0000

i’m a lurker on AoPS. I have an account, I just don’t post with it; I use it to take classes.

I actually just remembered this, but my older brother qualified for USAMO, and he got into Stanford. Haha. This was also in the olden days when the AMC was still called the AHSME though. He attended 1997-2001. He’s a smart cookie.

the AMC12 isn’t THAT hard. you only need 14 questions right to get over 100 and qualify for AIME. i’ve always been able to do that. the problem is being able to answer the other 11 questions so you can qualify for the USAMO… sigh

i love this math competition, i wish i could invest more of my time into it, then maybe I’d actually have a chance. I’d ditch grades for it; but alas, parental units. bleh.

Does anyone do anything else? ARML maybe?