<p>Dauntless9, I’m glad you can ask someone in admissions, I’m curious as to this. My younger son got a low 90’s score on AMC-12 in 9th grade, and he was wondering if he could skip reporting that and wait and report higher scores, but I told him I thought that was pretty good for 9th grade. </p>
<p>As for the older son, our school never even gave the AMCs until he asked them to because he planned on applying to several schools that asked for it. When he talked to other kids from other schools at math contests and found out that their teachers had given them extensive review sessions on both the AMCs and the AIMEs, I think he just figured that his AIME scores were bad since he had no preparation, plus he hadn’t scored much higher from the prior year. At his school, they really didn’t tell him much about the test at all. In fact, sophomore year, when he took the AIME, they didn’t even tell him what day it was until he showed up at school and they pulled him out of class to tell him he would be missing his a.m. classes.</p>