<p>How prominent is the USAMTS Silver Medal?</p>
<p>I’m a current senior. Will I have a shot at HPYCSM with this award, along with a few other state/national Science/Engineering awards & a few publications in local + national newspapers?</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.95</p>
<p>AP National Scholar - Will have taken 12/13 APs by the end of HS.
National Merit Semifinalist
Qualified for AIME in 2009
2320 SAT (800 M, 770W, 750CR)
800 MATH IIC & 800 Chemistry
770 Physics & 770 Biology</p>
<p>Service Hours: 300+
President of one club.
No sports related activities.
Piano - Level 10</p>
<p>Recs - will have an excellent one from a professor I worked with over the summer.
The other two recs from school teachers should be fairly good as well.</p>
<p>Essays - I enjoy & am good at writing, so these will be pretty good. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance to all who respond.</p>
<p>P.S. I’m an Asian female from California.</p>
<p>umm your test scores are certainly very qualified. I am not sure how reputable USAMTS is, I had a friend who did it. But he also qualified for the USAMO, which is probably better than USAMTS. </p>
<p>Overall I don’t think one award will make or break you, your scores seem amazing and you just need to make everything else as best as u can.</p>
<p>I am assuming you are applying to tech schools?</p>
<p>it’s pretty prominent. It falls under “major awards” which is a huge bonus. lot’s of people get rejected simply because they have no “major award.”</p>
<p>Thanks! ：）</p>
<p>By the way, how much might my GPA affect me in admission? A lot? A little?</p>
<p>Heya, I also got USAMTS silver last year!
I think that your other science fair awards, publications, and activities will definitely play a bigger role in your applications, since you seem to have a few activities that you excel in(unlike me, who has a million different things that i’m kind of good at.)
Award-wise, i dont think that USAMTS is much of an award, reason being that the contest emphasizes developing interest in mathematical problem solving rather than winning the award itself. What it does show is a strong enthusiasm in mathematics.</p>
<p>yes definitely put it down. Its probably the next best thing after MOP, USAMO, etc.</p>
<p>The award definitely will help. Scores are certainly there. The GPA is good. It will be down to how good your essays are along with the recs.</p>
<p>But since you are confident that recs/essays will be good, I think you have a strong chance.</p>
<p>Bump 
Thanks to everyone who responded.</p>
<p>The USAMTS is a great contest. Congratulations!</p>
<p>The silver medal is DEFINITELY noteworthy and will help you out especially at Caltech/MIT, which are math/sciency schools. Your GPA is absolutely fine especially with the load of APs you taken–trust me, don’t worry about it. 12/13 APs is VERY rigorous and colleges will notice that on the transcript. Flawless test scores…the only thing that’s a liiitle bit weak is your ECs, but as long as you show proficiency in the ones that you DO participate in, I think it should be fine.</p>
<p>Overall I am fully expecting you to get into at least half of the schools you listed Good luck! Are you applying anywhere early?</p>
<p>the IMO winner had perfect score, but ‘only’ 83 or (87?) points out of 100 on USAMTS, in fact no one had a perfect score!!! 
less known than AMC but most certainly harer, although honestly they’re just different contests, :D</p>