<p>Science Olympiad - I’m sure it will be seen in a favorable light - it involves actual hands-on experimentation- and so many prospective scientists these days aren’t even doing experiments - they’re studying their college textbooks MIT’s motto is “mens et manus”. I was thinking of persuading my school to go towards National Science Bowl but once I found more about the Olympiad and found that the Bowl = memorization, I’m nowleaning towards the Olympiad.</p>
<p>Also, as for the AMC situation at my school - my school has a new math head - so I talked with her. She said that she’ll talk to the coach of the math team (for some reason, I keep on forgetting to talk to the coach of the math team about it) - I told her that I’d be willing to share the expenses with a couple of classmates (not as ambitious to the point of e-mailing every school in the area, but still ambitious enough to be willing to pay a partial fee for the exam). Hmm. I suppose I was too shy of contacting another teacher. Actualy, I didn’t even contact any teachers at my school - I shied away since I didn’t want to strain any relations; this is not the attitude of an independent scientist… - the teacher who rejected my offer was one who offered the AMC 10 at the junior high - and I wanted to take the AMC 10 since I don’t want an empty slot for it on my MIT app. Still though, who cares about AMC 10 when there’s the AMC 12? (since it really isn’t much more difficult to get to AIME via AMC 12 and first 10 q;s are very similar).</p>
<p>I’m surprised - Lakeside did reply and it doesn’t offer the AMC on the second date.</p>