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Did anyone take the AHSME (American High School Math Exam)?
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:23 AM Author: cobalt plaza or the AMC 12 in high school? What was your score, and what year (since different scoring formulae have been used in different years)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10554914) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:28 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground I took it junior and senior years. That would be 1998 and 1999. Scored a 128 and 140 respectively. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10554944) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:30 AM Author: cobalt plaza 140? Wow, you were in the top 25 out of 240,000 students who took it in '99.
http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e6-amc12/e6-1-12archive/1999-12a/99ahsstat.txt
Did you take the AIME and USAMO? What were your scores? Invited to the summer camp? |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:31 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground Yeah I know. Whatever. It's totally meaningless in the grand scheme of things. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10554959) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:33 AM Author: cobalt plaza Did you take the AIME/USAMO? Score? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10554968) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:34 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground Yeah, I took both. Junior year I got 7 out of 15 on AIME and barely qualified for the USAMO. Totally bombed it though.
Senior year, I scored 10 out of 15 on AIME, did USAMO and got invited to the camp in Nebraska. But I didn't make the IMO team. The people there were absolutely brilliant. |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:34 AM Author: cobalt plaza So you went to the camp? What was that like? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10554981) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:39 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground The most intellectually intensive experience of my life. And no, I'm not exaggerating. You go to seminars on every mathematical topic, ranging from combinatorics to linear algebra, to advanced geometric proofs, etc. A decent number of past IMO participants come over and give talks as well. I still keep in touch with a few of the people I met there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555002) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:41 AM Author: Galvanic shrine sneaky criminal Are you in LS now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555010) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:41 AM Author: flirting regret a lot of hooking up? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555011) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:41 AM Author: cobalt plaza Cool. What would you say was the key element for doing well on the AHSME? Mainly pure intelligence, or mainly practice with old ASHME problems and stuff? I always thought it was very hard. The best I did was a 105, even though I got As in math classes, 750 SAT Math, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555012) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:45 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground This sounds arrogant, but with AHSME and AIME, I think it's mainly natural intelligence. For the USAMO and IMO, because the proofs are so difficult and you're competing against really smart people, practice becomes important. You need to be able to think creatively with regards to solving these proofs. They're tough as hell.
Yeah, I'm in law school. Doing a joint JD/MBA degree. |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:49 AM Author: spectacular alcoholic box office double fault I think the time limit is also a big factor. It helps to have a large stock of proof strategies available.
Do you miss math ever? |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:53 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground No; I don't miss math. In college, I started as a math major but took some economics courses and got more interested in finance and making money. But it's all good because law and business school is a joke compared to advanced math, so that training still helps me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555091) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:55 AM Author: spectacular alcoholic box office double fault Do you ever feel like you're wasting your talents though? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555107) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:59 AM Author: orange floppy hunting ground Not at all. I became disillusioned with academia in college. I didn't want to spend my life publishing esoteric articles that very few people care about. And since my parents are not rich, money became a pretty important consideration. Besides, I enjoy my current program. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555121) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 12:28 PM Author: cobalt plaza What is your career goal? Law or finance, or a combination of both? Corp law? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555245) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 12:31 PM Author: orange floppy hunting ground i'm trying to decide between corporate law and private equity.
i also would love to run for office someday, but i would need to go back to my home state to have a chance of winning. Unfortunately, my home is an absolute TTT, and I would kill myself if I had to go back and live there. |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 12:40 PM Author: cobalt plaza Just curious, do you think the stock market is really a "random walk" and unpredictable, or do you think it's predictable to an extent and more intelligent people can do better than others at investing (without inside information, just looking at historical charts and stuff)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555328) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 1:00 PM Author: orange floppy hunting ground It's not a total random walk. There are patterns if you look at charts, and you analyze the relationship between volume and volatility. But having said that, a lot of smart people did not foresee this current crisis, and some of the best hedge funds are getting crushed right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555444) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 1:04 PM Author: cobalt plaza At the summer camp, what did you all do besides go to math seminars? Any fun stuff, or was it just math all day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555457) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:54 AM Author: cobalt plaza Yeah, I think with the AHSME there's only so much that practice and study can help you. Some of the harder problems require "creative" solutions, so you basically need pure intelligence to do really well.
Nice to know we have a math genius here! |
Date: December 19th, 2008 11:32 AM Author: Galvanic shrine sneaky criminal Yeah, don't remember the score though. Advanced to the AIME junior and senior year I think. Buddy of mine was 1 question from making it to USAMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10554960) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 11:46 AM Author: marvelous sinister lodge masturbator I remember this test. I got somewhere in the 90s. I was always pretty decent at math, but not a good math standardized test taker. Geometry always threw me for a loop.
Some kid the year below me got a 149 though, which was pretty insane. (And he was recognized as one of the top math students in the country, so this made sense). |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 12:32 PM Author: Mustard misunderstood trust fund i got a 130 one year. Always thought that would be the highest score of anyone posting here - too bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555269) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 12:46 PM Author: cobalt plaza Cool. The highest score in my school (ever) was like a 126 and everyone considered him to be the smartest kid evar. Did you do the AIME? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555366) |
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Date: December 19th, 2008 12:54 PM Author: Mustard misunderstood trust fund yeah, I don't remember how I did, but I didn't qualify for USAMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=902409&forum_id=2#10555407) |
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