What is MIT's view on self studying and taking hard math classes earlier on?

rainynightstarz
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:59:10 +0000

well, did you get in?

my school offered i think 14 AP total
but 4 of them are languages so its impossible for anyone to take them all
1 is music theory , kinda random
and calc ab and bc can really count as one (so thats really like 9 APs)
and since i am an immigrant, though not that new to US, but would struggle too much in humanities AP classes, I’ll only be taking all the highest math and science at my school, and some CC classes
AP classes at my school are super hard, why? because everyone is so smart, but only few can get A’s in the class.

AIME is actually really big… like about 100,000 people take the AMC every year
about 9,000 qualifies
and top 500 (used to be 250) of the whole nation gets to get into USAMO

after looking at the AMC website
about only 100 people would have qualified for AIME since 8th grade my graduation year, which even less of them would be females
and a 4 on the AIME would give me at least top 150 in my graduation class of females in the country
I hope that would help my chances
I just really wish I can make USAMO my senior year, it’s my last chance.