<p>I am wondering…how many Siemens finalists/semis or USAMOers/MOPPers are applying Yale SCEA? I feel like many math kids do MIT early or Stanford so I am wondering who did Yale</p>
<p>I am a Siemens semi and I did Yale.</p>
<p>I qualified for USAMO and I’m applying for Yale SCEA. A USNCO silver medalist from my school is also applying for Yale SCEA. And also an alternate for the US ILO team is earlying Yale.</p>
<p>In total there’s 16 people in my grade earlying for Yale. Best of luck to all.</p>
<p>Are these awards a big deal? I don’t know what they are, so if anyone could explain to me…</p>
<p>These don’t matter at all, so don’t worry or even care about it.</p>
<p>People on other threads were all “I’m a Siemens/USAMO person: my odds of getting in are very high!”</p>
<p>I, on the other hand, am worried about the B/B+ I may get in physics C and calc BC on the midyear report and how that might affect my RD schools…or Yale if I get deferred.</p>
<p>Well, both are a very big accomplishment in fact, but I believe Yale receives a fewer applicant pool thats populated with USA-Oer compared to Harvard/MIT/Caltech/Stanford</p>
<p>Can someone tell me what these awards are/mean?</p>
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<p>Siemens/Intel/USAXO has a noticeable impact only if you want to major in the math/sciences. Otherwise, for those who plan to major in the humanities (which for Yale is most people), it doesn’t matter at all.</p>
<p>I think for Yale, it matters the least because they are really trying to select students who are more “well-rounded”, to some extent. In other words, they’re not looking for the same people as MIT are, even in the math/sciences.</p>
<p>Umm… for USAMO, ur basically the top 250-300 math whizes in the nation. To get there u have to do well on the AMC, qualify for AIME (top 10% AMC), and score high enough on both to make USAMO. Those who made it to this stage compete for spots on IMO team (b4 that u qualify for MOP first by scoring the top 30 on USAMO).
In my opinion, qualify for USAMO is the hardest compared to other disciplines that offer competitions (namely bio, chem, informatics, physics…)
Siemens is a prestigious national and widely regarded science competition (the other is Intel), like the national science fair (to an extent, but its not exactly a science fair)</p>
<p>What percent of Siemens/USAMO placers get accepted?</p>
<p>Big prizes matter at the most selective schools. These are some of the big ones–there are also other big things in the arts and humanities. But there are plenty of students who don’t have anything like that.</p>
<p>@ Nolagirl</p>
<p>I feel your pain about that B+, AP Econ and Lit are just killing me right now but at least my Lit teacher lets us rewrite papers, which is usually unheard of in an AP Lit class :D</p>
<p>I think these awards could help the most for Yale, because they get the least amt of applicants strong in math of harvard/p’ton/MIT/ and Stanford.</p>
<p>Least amount of applicants or matriculates?</p>
<p>^the former</p>
<p>I thought Yale leaned more towards humanities than those schools, though…</p>
<p>Actually, Yale has more humanity applicants, so being a science nerd will usually help more compared to MIT, where it had its share of math whiz/science nerd. Since Yale looks for a diverse student body. However, not all math/science geniuses got into Yale, however. A huge chunk went somewhere else</p>
<p>^ Is it really true that Yale mostly has humanities applicants? A good portion of the students from my SCIENCE/TECH school are earlying Yale. It’s a more common option than MIT from my school anyways. And yet, our schools accept % from Yale is the same as Yale’s average accept %.</p>
<p>Because Yale accepts so few science/engineering majors each year, it doesn’t take many qualified applicants to make the pool competitive.</p>