DARPA Funding+Putnam T100 = MIT? [Aerospace Engineering; 4.0 GPA, 760RW/800M SAT, Canadian resident, international for US universities]

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@TsiolkovskyLagrange

@DadTwoGirls

You come in with an 800 on the math part of the SAT and having been the best student in math in your high school, and then discover that everyone else is the same (or close)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

No… not everyone else is even close to me at that point, only the intls and VERY few domestics are.

You’re saying this (and targeting Putnam 100 as a high schooler) based on coming in the top 500 in a country with one fifth of the US population whose IMO team hasn’t made podium since 1981?

I think you might wanna check your math.

@TsiolkovskyLagrange

British Math Olympiad (Top 500 in the UK)
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In order to round this out, should I just aim to get t100 in the Putnam?