Graduate Admission into MIT

collegealum314
Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:07 +0000

Graduate admissions does not care about activities like tennis and guitar.

There is a Putnam-like contest that is open to internationals; I forget what it’s called. You are obviously good at these sorts of contests if you made IMO in high school. The most important thing for you to do is to keep your grades high, get involved in research that you would want to continue as a graduate student, and to ace the math part of the GRE
(shoot for 800). If you get 600+ on the other GRE sections that will probably be good enough.

If you can do decently well at the college math olympiad that will help a lot. Also, you should mention in your application that you participated in the IMO in high school. There are very few high school awards that are big enough to mention on a grad school application, but this is one of them.