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Nah, I did that gig. Got into the AIME five times and one year got a 144 on the AMC. The moment you get admitted to college, nobody gives a damn about anythin
by dfranke 19y ago
Nah, I did that gig. Got into the AIME five times and one year got a 144 on the AMC. The moment you get admitted to college, nobody gives a damn about anything you did in high school. (I defer to cperciva on this matter, since he'd likely smoke my ass on the best day I ever had. EDIT: good, I guess I don't have to defer.)
- amichail 19y agoA medal in these competitions is different though. It's proof that your IQ is very high, especially with the math olympiad.
- dfranke 19y agoUm, if you need to prove that you have a high IQ, wouldn't it be a bit more straightforward to just take an IQ test?
- amichail 19y agoWhen looking at someone's resume, I would trust exceptional performance in the math olympiad over any IQ test.
- aswanson 19y agoI wouldn't trust either. Jumping through hoops doesn't cut it. Do something unforced that is exceptional.
- mgummelt 19y agoHow is the math olympiad forced?
- aswanson 19y agoI meant that it is more impressive to find and solve a solution to a novel or significant problem than jumping through a difficult set of solved insignificant problems. Forced in this sense means that someone has framed where your mind has to go; you don't have to recognize and make value judgments on it's worth.
- machine 19y agoBut would you trust math olympiad performance over good grades in graduate level math courses? What about publications in respected math journals? If by the time you graduate from college your math olympiad scores are the best things you have going for you, you've got a problem.
- amichail 19y agoYes, I would take math Olympiad performance more seriously than graduate level math courses. As for publications, that would depend on where the paper is published and how much of a contribution was made by the candidate vs his/her coauthors. IQ doesn't change much. If you were super bright in high school, you will probably still be super bright in your 20s and 30s.
- aswanson 19y agoBut it takes more than a scalar score on a test to prove your ability to integrate whats around you into something new. If you get a perfect score on one of those tests and don't do jack shit afterwards, what does it mean?