<p>How much do colleges value USAMO qualifications?</p>
<p>Colleges that traditionally have strong Putnam teams value USAMO a lot, because that’s where their Putnam teams come from (eg, MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Princeton, Duke, Harvey Mudd). LACs that don’t care about Putnam, or who have admissions staff that may have never heard of Putnam, aren’t going to care as much about USAMO.</p>
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