I took the online informational session in February. There was not much new information if you went to other IMSA events such as Preview Day other than important dates if you get accepted/wait listed. They talked about the types of letters they might send out such as acceptance, wait list, deferral, and denial. If you have a burning question about the admissions, you can actually ask questions at the end of the session which I found helpful.
When is it?
It is starting soon. You were supposed to register a couple of weeks ago. The meeting should be available online on IMSA’s website later, but I’m taking notes so you guys can ask me questions.
So the meeting basically covered the admissions process, types of letter you’ll receive (as @cubsfan14 said), next steps, and important dates. There wasn’t a lot of completely new information from what we’ve said here. I tried asking a few questions but the presenter didn’t finish answering every question.
I just wanted to ask the forum that is GPA actually a huge factor. Also, lets say im the only from my school applying to IMSA, is there a good chance that I can make it then?
@coolcatz1 that is unfortunate that they did not answer your questions. @rattybatty according to IMSA admissions, they could accept all or none of the applicants from a certain school. There isn’t supposed to be any limits on the number of students that they accept from that school. From what I know, their modified GPA seems to be pretty important, but they definitely look at each application as a whole.
I didn’t register for the meeting, but my friend sent me a link to it and I signed in as a guest with the nickname “ayy lmao”
@PlanarStuff oh I saw your name out of about 60 people at the meeting 
I never realized how many people everyone is competing against. The presenter said that there were over 600 applicants this year like last year so only 1/3 is being accepted
i mean 1/3 isn’t even that bad like considering some colleges
NSML nerds, we all should meet tomorrow at Evanston! We should establish some corner of the room to meet in (since all 55+ schools are packed into a giant room)
1/3 for freshman, 1/20 for 8th grader :((
@bubblemaster3000 that’s true, but you always have next year
also some people say applying in 8th helps your chances for 9th
NSML Conference was great! I got a perfect on the Freshman and a 3/5 on the Sophomore (only 4 sophomores from the entire league got perfects). We were the best school in our division and the school that has improved the most from last year (went up 18 ranks). That’s the end of NSML this year! Hopefully I make it into IMSA and its math team!
wow congrats @PlanarStuff!
we had regionals for science olympiad today, and since we have a not great team (we barely have half of the standard team size), we didn’t qualify for state. it was ok because we still got medals; we just weren’t able to participate in everything.
No matter how you guys did, congrats to anyone who has or will compete! I know competition season is absolutely crazy but you guys have done really really well and I’m p excited to call you guys my classmates for next year ^-^
Anyone going to Mathcounts State this Saturday?
I am jealous of you guys… you are so lucky with your schools!!! My school does not have any math/science team… so the questions is if I can enter on my own to participate in anything like this?
@javascript i don’t know of any individual competitions sadly, but you could try to get your school to start something. or better, you can hopefully do it at imsa!
@javascipt my school never advanced to mathcounts state before, and this year we barely missed by one or two position. I qualified as individual.
Actually, both our math and science team coaches retired when I started middle school. We rebuilt the teams from scratch. It was quite painful. No teacher’s support. Participation was scarce. The school district posted coach hiring for 6 months, no one cared to apply. Our first math coach was a fresh graduate from Northern Illinois State Univ. She didn’t have any idea about competitional math. We missed mathcounts and AMC8 because our coach thought anything beyond curriculum was useless. I mentioned things like that a little bit in my essay.