<p>I’ll ask a guy on admissions, because I really just don’t know.</p>
<p>@crazy mom: I’m surprised your son was worried about getting a 6 on the AIME and 120’s on the AMC. Those are considered pretty good scores, even for Caltech. I think people don’t appreciate just how few people actually do well on the AIME. Glancing at the AIME stats from last year, ~950 scored 6+ on the AIME for a single grade (I added up people who scored 6 or more who were in grade 11 or 12, both of which were ~950), and not all of those 950 even apply to Caltech. And since we admitted ~686 students least year, I think a 6 is pretty darn good. It’s certainly a higher score than most people here I’ve talked to got (not the math majors though, naturally).</p>