Mathcounts nationals - include or not to include?

anotherparent
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:46:08 +0000

Sorry, forget about it. Presumably if you were good in math in middle school, you then went onto do very well in High School math or science competitions, or maybe you branched to research.

If I were an adcom and saw MC on your application, and no other real honors in math or science, I would wonder what went wrong. I would wonder if you started slacking off. If there were a lot of great honors in high school, then that MC would just be taking up space. My son, who did very well in math competitions in high school (but did not compete in mathcounts,) ran out of space for his High School honors on the common app.