Should I include my AMC 10 score?

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Hi, the Yale app asks for my AMC score. I took it my freshmen year without any prior practice. It was just some mandatory thing at my school so no one really cared.</p>

<p>I ended up getting the highest score in my grade AND the grade above me. However, it’s only an 81. </p>

<p>Should I still include it? It’s pretty low especially against Yale applicants.</p>

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<p>Maybe you could include a note mentioning that it is the highest score? You could write that next to your score or just include it in the additional info section of the Common App.</p>

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<p>81 on the AMC 10 is not very impressive. I wouldn’t bother including it. </p>

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<p>As I recall from my son’s application, this wasn’t an optional question–I think you have to report any AMC scores if you took the tests. I wouldn’t worry about it at all, though, especially since you took the test as a freshman.</p>

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<p>^^ <a href=“http://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx”>http://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The average AMC of all male test takers was a 75, female average was a 71. So, while you scored well for your school and did above average, as @ZeeTee said, an 81 is not that impressive.</p>

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My GC told me to include it since it’s listed as one of my “achievements” on my common app. Do you think the low score would carry a lot of weight onto my decision?

Thanks again! :slight_smile:

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Unless you’re planning to major in math, I don’t think it will affect the decision about your application at all. But I do think you have to report it.

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@Planner‌ Thanks for the reply! Oh damn, I’m majoring in economics…so it involves math lol. But my average in all my AP/Honors math classes are above a 96 so I hope they’ll take more of that into consideration.

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@airspirit Economics isn’t math—and seriously, this score absolutely won’t matter. Without going into details, my son (not a math major, though interested in fields like economics that involve math) didn’t have a stellar score either on this test, and he got in early. So report your score but don’t worry about it!

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@Planner Aight thanks man! :slight_smile: