<p>1)How many math/science competitions do the average prospective/acutal MIT students participate in?
2)What are they?
3)How many of them are taken during sophomore year in high school?</p>
<p>Nineteen. Six during the sophomore year.</p>
<p>On average, I’m not sure, but I am willing to bet that the mode is 0.</p>
<p>Oh come on Mollie, I’d think a more realistic number is 2-3 science/math competitions during HS.</p>
<p>haha. I had zero. And I got in.</p>
<p>are you serious K_Mcmanus07??</p>
<p>Then did you do it all in Junior year? wow.</p>
<p>i’m a prospective applicant. In freshman i participated in one. In sophomore I did 3. In junior i did 4. In senior, i’m probably going to do 5. Oh, and this isn’t counting amc or anything. It’s just science competitions.</p>
<p>numbers aren’t going to tell you much in this case why?
the number of contests available in an subject varies (Math? bio? research?robotics?) And number of contests available at different geographical area also varies. and of course also depends on how you count the competitions , especially for the ones that repeats every year.</p>
<p>what if my country doesn’t really have science competitions? or if they have them they are not very organized and i didn’t hear about them??? (i live in a 3rd world country). the only thing we do here is math olympiad which i am doing this year… am i screwed? :S</p>
<p>I think if you have hung around the MIT board and its website long enough you’ll realize that there’s no fixed number. Its just like extracurriculars if you do like 12 but aren’t giving too much depth (in the case of competitions not doing well or doing them for just the sake of putting in on your college app.) colleges are going to see through that. However if you are really passionate say about Math and then do lots of Math Competitions thats justified as you are doing something that you really enjoy.</p>
<p>If competitions aren’t available, then you won’t be penalized. It’s all taken in context.</p>
<p>okay thanks differential, but how would i explain that on my app?</p>
<p>Just write something like: “Note: I didn’t have many math/science competitions in my area, but instead I did XYZ. Hey! Look at XYZ. Isn’t it infinity billion times cooler than some competition?”</p>
<p>Hmm… you might want to slip in a 20 as well… (jk)</p>
<p>LOL differential hahaahha</p>
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Well, I think it matters what you count as a science/math contest. If we’re only counting stuff like Intel or Olympiads, zero is almost certainly the mode.</p>
<p>If we’re counting stuff like high school science fairs, I guess the mode goes up somewhat. What else counts? I did quiz team, and I was the biology question expert – does that count?</p>
<p>Yeah… I was thinking like regional math competitions, regional science fairs, AMC12, etc…</p>
<p>What a useless statistic.</p>
<p>You can easily compete in 20 competitions a year and suck at all of them.</p>
<p>LauraN - you said it. It is not the number that counts. It is the quality of the participation. </p>
<p>Talking about quality, it is importatnt that the counselor and/or teacher recommendations are able to talk positively about it. Particularly if the wins were mostly in team events, individual’s contribution to the team needs to stand out.</p>
<p>differs on race too.
most science/math competitions are dominated by asians (including indians, tho a lot of stupid ppl dont think indians are asians) and jews.
those ppl are just better at those stuff.
so if you’re black w/o any competitions, dont worry
if you’re asian wanting to major in engineering…
apply somewhere else</p>
<p>that is the most messed up thing I’ve heard… THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS FOR CONTESTS ON RACE!! It’s just whether one bothers to take it or not.
And for your information… the only people that got into MIT from my school in the past years ARE Asian.
After all MIT is ~26% Asian</p>