<p>Last year’s provincial AMC10 winner. This year’s AMC12 perfect score. Qualified for USAMO 2 years in a row. SAT 2200 SATII nearly perfect
I am a junior from Canada. My average is around 94.
What is the chance ?</p>
<p>So were you on the traveling team or not? Also, whats your SAT breakdown. I’d say you have pretty strong chances if they are looking for math students. Stay strong in math and make sure you diversify a little bit to add some depth. They will want to see that you’re more than numbers.</p>
<p>You’re going to be rejected from Harvard and accepted to Caltech/MIT.</p>
<p>Do you have 800 Math and/or 800 Math Level 2?</p>
<p>^I would bet on both. but it doesn’t even really matter</p>
<p>AMC12 perfect score is pretty amazing. I think I got a 136 on AMC10 in grade 9, and a 117 or something on this year’s AMC12, and I was happy about both.</p>
<p>2200 SAT isn’t low, but it could be higher, depending on the distribution. we also need to know a lot more about you to give a chance.</p>
<p>Right. I got 2200 in Jan. without sufficient preparation because of many different contests. Certainly it could be higher. I am going to take it again in MAY. My final SAT score will probably be R720-770 M800 W750-800 Essay10-12.</p>
<p>congratulations, this is a great achievement, and you should definitely try to highlight your math talent when you apply next year. i also qualified for the aime, but a perfect score on the amc is quite transcendant.</p>
<p>I imagine you would have been top for COMC too? and do pretty well on CMO?</p>
<p>As far back as I’ve researched, top Canadian math students pretty much always get into top US schools every single year. </p>
<p>This year, all the IMO team member are applying to US schools (including one who’s graduating early). If they all get in, chances look stellar for you.</p>
<p>gf4848, just curious, are you on the IMO team this year? or last year?</p>
<p>and just a correction for Canadianftw, not all IMO team members are applying to the US this year.</p>
<p>I agree that you’ll be a better fit at MIT/Cal Tech or similar tech/math/science schools.</p>
<p>Hope you get in. Perfect in AMC is definitely a big achievement. And how did you do at USAMO?</p>
<p>You have a really good chance as long as you are not “life-is-all-about-math” ;)</p>
<p>What is wrong with “life is all about math”? Dont we need a few like that in our society? OP - try Princeton too BTW. I know they have a stellar math department.</p>
<p>To sinusrhythm</p>
<p>while having <em>fun</em> with math, dont you wanna have a life too?</p>
<p>Is it true that international applications are saturated with mathematics (and physics) oriented students?</p>
<p>Not sure, but most internationals, who get in, probably have excellent math and science scores on the SAT, ACT, and SAT II to make up for mediocre/poor English/writing scores resulting from their international status? No idea.</p>
<p>^test scores won’t even matter unless they’re bad. good math scores don’t make up for mediocre reading/writing scores.</p>
<p>most internationals should have excellent scores all around to have a good chance.</p>
<p>lol My life is never all-about-math.
Thanks for all advices! For this year’s USAMO, I…sorta failed a little. I scored 20 and the only great thing is that I am over the Blue MOPper cutoff. Still, I am short of 3 marks to get into Honorable Mention (pretty frustrated). Anyway, thank you very much.</p>
<p>gf4848- you’ve got a great chance- I’d look into MIT/Caltech for sure in addition to Harvard as well as Columbia, Chicago, Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Stanford and Yale. You stand a great shot of getting into all of these schools if your essays are halfway good. Perfect in AMC12 is awesome!</p>
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<p>Performance on USAMO and IMO, including non-selection if that is the result, calibrate you against the US and international mathematician pool. A math professor will probably read your file and there will be one or two on the admissions committee, so the other math scores won’t matter nearly as much. If you indicate a strong interest not in math but in computer programming or medicine, fields where speed and accuracy have an extra importance, then the AMC perfect score might become more significant. How many people achieve that score each year?</p>