International competition

fiona_1
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:48:24 +0000

Originally posted by shspyc
to fiona_: I think wining a Olympiad award is not at all valuable in the eye of MIT adcom. They admitted many students who are actually poor in Math(though they got 2400 on SAT II).



You must be kidding me. Do not discount the importance of an international medal. Only the top few students are sent to the international Olympiad.

Although many other non-Olympiaders are admitted, you must know that each country only sends a few students to each Olympiad, so the non-Olympiad pool is much larger than the Olympiad pool.