Interesting. Maybe I'm significantly older (graduated high school in the early 90's) than the poster, but math team was a big deal at my high school. So much

Interesting. Maybe I'm significantly older (graduated high school in the early 90's) than the poster, but math team was a big deal at my high school. So much so that my school fielded 3 teams (A, B, and C) for regional competitions. At local meets, A and B teams typically always came in first and second respectively, with C (only a partial team) coming in third or fourth. A team also won the state championships twice. In general, it was pretty low key. Local meets were every month or so, practice was about 2 hours a week, though we did more for states. At no point did I think about the impact on my college admissions, and I don't recall it coming up in conversation with anyone else. (warning: humblenrag) In fact, the only real negative memory I have was that the individual high scorers got graphing calculators until the year I had the high score and got a calculus textbook. Of course, when I got to college and had to pay for textbooks, I learned that the calculus text probably was more expensive than the calculator.