<p>Would being on the Canadian Math Olympiad team be an excellent EC even though the Canadian team isn’t that good??
And is it worth it even though i can’t take Harvard Summer School Courses because of strict rules??</p>
<p>Harvard Summer School will not increase your chances of getting into Harvard. As a generalization, any summer program that requires substantial amounts of money to attend will not increase your chances of getting into college.</p>
<p>As for being on the Canadian Math Olympiad, I doubt that it would improve your chances that much more as you are applying as an international. Try making International Math Olympiad and then winning a medal.</p>
<p>Being on the Canadian Math Olympiad team would mean you’d got to the IMO. It would be a pretty amazing achievement, even if you don’t medal. If you do, that’s brilliant obviously, but I think anyone capable of doing those 4 1/2 papers is very very good indeed.</p>
<p>lol, r u kidding…that’s an excellent EC. go for it and good luck!</p>
<p>Be careful. Don’t ride on your participation in IMO - there have been a few domestic students who have received gold medals and still were rejected.</p>
<p>Should i go to harvard for the summer or go to the imo?</p>
<p>IMO, definitely, no question. Harvard doesn’t care about the summer school and even if it did, the IMO is an amazing thing to do. Sod Harvard, that’ll be landing you top jobs when graduate!</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely do IMO. Harvard doesn’t accept every Canadian math olympiad star, but it will certainly care about that much more than about attending Harvard summer school.</p>