<p>Is it okay to include math competitions on my UC applications</p>
<p>I competed in the first math competition when I was in middle school and got a medal.</p>
<p>The next one’s when I was with math club in high school. I went to the competition but didn’t get any awards. </p>
<p>They were not “national” math competitions …lol</p>
<p>Don’t include anything from middle school (The obvious exception would be qualifying for AIME, USAMO, etc.). Unless you’ve done well on some national competitions (at least qualified for AIME) or won your state competition or something at least reasonably well known, I wuld shy away from it. Instead you could write a generalized statement like, “I have received more than 20 awards from various local, state, and national math competitions.”</p>