International competition

frankchn
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:21:05 +0000

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).



An IO medal signifies that you are basically Top 40/80/120 (depending on gold/silver/bronze and the size of the IO) in that particular subject in the world. That must mean something.