Did Harvard really turn down a member of the US IMO team?

[monstor344]

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Colleges are not looking for in-depth knowledge of pre-calc. In order to do well in Math-25, one has to have gone beyond MVCalc and LA. At any rate, I believe this young man did pre-calc in middle school.

I’m just saying that this is what the math competition essentially measures. There is little coverage of subjects at the calculus level and beyond, even on the USAMO.</p>