<p>Sup everyone? First let me give you a little background info.</p>
<p>I am Canadian in grade 11 and wrote the AMC 12A. I scored 51, which is absolutely horrendous. I scored ~80 on a practice 2003 AMC 12, but I have no clue what happened today when I wrote the contest. I will apply to a couple top schools, including Harvard. I will apply to some other schools that I am not worried about getting in as well.</p>
<p>Now, I know lower ranked schools could care less about AMC scores, but will top schools ask for scores if I put that I wrote this contest, as well as others, on my resume/application? I wrote the AMC 12a today as a “resume padder”, something that would help me for SAT math, a good experience, and for the fact that it is an American contest and not a Canadian one. But, now it seems like my terrible score may affect my chances instead of doing the opposite.</p>
<p>So, do top schools ask for scores (I know MIT does, but what about Harvard/Columbia/Brown/Dartmouth)? I know I could put it on my resume/app. and not mention the scores, but would they come back to me asking for results? Kinda worried that I screwed myself over.</p>
<p>All Ivies use the common app, so they do not ask for AMC scores.</p>
<p>I think even MIT asks for AMC scores more as a plus factor than anything else. My score was a 75, I think, but it may have been a 73, and they didn’t mind.</p>
<p>I didn’t even know just taking the test would be considered a resume padder. IDK but in other schools do you have to be good in math to take it? Anyone can take it at my school, so I never thought of it as something important, especially if you didn’t do well on it.</p>
<p>well, at our school you’d have to be relatively good at math to take it. We have an enrichment program, and only the kids in it know about these contests, so it’s kind of kept away from other kids. But, i’m sure if your pretty good at math (curriculum math) they’d let you write it at our school. Like, makes no sense…I got mid-high 90s on all math tests this year, but i get 51 on the AMC! </p>
<p>I know all Ivies use the Common Application, but can’t you send in a resume along with your Common App. too? Because if you are allowed to do that, I would like to mention taking the AMC 12A as a grade 11…but I’m still not completely convinced about them not probing further into scores. Since I am Canadian, won’t they be interested in American contest scores? Idk if they’d care about Canadian contest scores either, because I know this one guy who always finished in the top 1% of all the intense, competitive mat contests in Canada sent our by the University of Waterloo Math and Computation Department (one of the best in Canada), yet he got rejected everywhere (he was not just a bookworm, he had some amazing ECs too)</p>
<p>And I think MIT uses them as some sort of tie-breaker perhaps…to differentiate from all the math-geniuses lol</p>
<p>I will apply to UTexas-Austin, Tex.A&M, Wayne State, and maybe Baylor as my safety/match schools. I’m sure these schools could care less about the AMC and just seeing that I wrote it/took the initiative to write it might be looked upon positively. But, not sure about Harvard and the like.</p>
<p>I put my AMC and AIME test scores, but I really wished that I could put down this years (I’m taking AMC12B), because I know that I will do much better. (knock on wood).</p>
<p>what program or general field did you apply to? Do you think they’d only care for these scores if you were applying to Engineering/Math? Or would they also care if your applying to a Science program?</p>
<p>I thought they only have AMC 10 and AMC 12? So you have to take AMC 12 when you are in 11th grade? Anyways, on the commonapp you can send a resume in the additional information section. I opted to send an essay for some schools and a resume for others. </p>
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<p>As you know, the AMC is very different from the normal math questions that a school teaches. It is more logic based and you can’t use calculators which many students have a big problem with. If every person who got A’s in math class could do well on the AMC, then there would be hundreds of thousands of students. They deliberately make it hard to distinguish the true math geniuses.</p>
<p>yea, i wrote it in gr.11 for the experience. guess what? right next to me was a 10 year old writing the contest! I think he might’ve been writing the 12A, maybe the 10, but he is a genius! His feet couldn’t even touch the ground while sitting lol.</p>
<p>And I think I will send in a resume to the colleges. Do the resumes need to be concise, like a job application resume? Or can they be exhaustive (up to 4-5 pages)? </p>
<p>Yea, I am a failure in real math, if you wanna call contest math that. School math is easy/understandable to me, but contest math…yea, whole 'nother story.</p>
<p>So, can you send an essay AND your resume? I probably won’t, but are you allowed? And so, if I just mention these contests on my resume/app., I won’t need to mention scores right? And are you guys sure they won’t probe deeper and find out what I got if I apply to Life Science/Biology programs?</p>
<p>In response to resumes, normally for colleges you want to keep it short and sweet. The adcoms are reading up to 30,000+ applications and I really doubt they want to read another 5 pages of a resume along with 2-3 essays. But there was one girl who was accepted to Harvard, who said on CC that her resume was really long and the Harvard adcom actually told her that her resume set her apart from everyone else because it was so extensive. So it really is your decision.</p>
<p>On the common app, for the additional information section, you can upload a document that is 100 pages if you want. So you can include a resume and an essay, but it becomes overkill. </p>
<p>If you do include your participation in the AMC, the schools will probably not contact you to find out your score. Unless they are interested in a student, they normally don’t go out of their way to contact students or guidance counselors. </p>
<p>Oh and Columbia is not on the common app, just to let you know:)</p>
I didn’t even think about putting that on my resume though.</p>