Start calculus in high school, dont enter college calculus cold

[Anonymous]

Enough of this equity math talk, but still requiring students to do math. I never cared about math, my kid doesnt either. It's good that they give option to those who dont want to do Algebra 2. Hope they come to senses and get rid of Algebra 1 and Geometry as well for high school graduation requirement. High school should be fun and engaging, not all this algebra stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is the US National Champion in the National Calculus League (CML contest) and the US National Champion for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology in the National Science League (CML contests). He’s a two-time Global Math Olympiad Scholarship (GMOS) winner, a Harvard International Relations Scholar, Inspirit AI Scholar, and a Qubit x Qubit Quantum Computing Full Scholarship recipient.

He’s also a Davidson Young Scholar, earned the Johns Hopkins University CTY Grand Honors Award, qualified for the Julian C. Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent (SET), and was recognized as a YALA Outstanding Scholar.

Remarkably, he qualified for both USAJMO and CJMO while in Grade 5, won Gold at the International Junior Math Olympiad (IJMO), and is a two-time National Spelling Bee of Canada Champion.

He’s a Senior Y1 member of the International Junior Honor Society (IJHS), a lifetime member of MENSA, and a Junior MENSA Honor Society member. Altogether, he’s earned hundreds of awards in national and international competitions in math, computer science, science, and more.

Do Better.

None of these are particularly impressive other than the USAJMO qualification. Plenty of other USAJMO qualifiers could get similar awards in those random math competitions if they cared, but they don't because they aren't important. If he finds them fun then by all means he should keep doing what he finds fun, but the marginal college admissions value is negligible and perhaps even negative if you were to try to shove them in to the application. (His profile looks more "coached" and thus less impressive than if you had just said he was a 5th grade USAJMO qualifier)

Keep in mind the common app only has room for 10 extracurricular activities, and MIT only allows 4.

If you want to know what would be more effective at maximizing his long term college admit chances (I think you do), I would recommend math tutoring / starting a math club at the elementary/middle school, volunteering at a local math circle, branching out into physics or informatics Olympiads, doing various programs like Michigan Math and Science Scholars, all the classic summer math programs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/18f752r/indian_internationals_miraculous_journey_to/ - here's an example of the kind of genuinely impressive stuff people do.

I mean this is straight up wrong that portfolio is insanely impressive, even if coached, the kid is insanely talented and USAJMO definitely isn't the only "good award". Get a grip

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enough of this equity math talk, but still requiring students to do math. I never cared about math, my kid doesnt either. It's good that they give option to those who dont want to do Algebra 2. Hope they come to senses and get rid of Algebra 1 and Geometry as well for high school graduation requirement. High school should be fun and engaging, not all this algebra stuff.

You can homeschool your kids if you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is the US National Champion in the National Calculus League (CML contest) and the US National Champion for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology in the National Science League (CML contests). He’s a two-time Global Math Olympiad Scholarship (GMOS) winner, a Harvard International Relations Scholar, Inspirit AI Scholar, and a Qubit x Qubit Quantum Computing Full Scholarship recipient.

He’s also a Davidson Young Scholar, earned the Johns Hopkins University CTY Grand Honors Award, qualified for the Julian C. Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent (SET), and was recognized as a YALA Outstanding Scholar.

Remarkably, he qualified for both USAJMO and CJMO while in Grade 5, won Gold at the International Junior Math Olympiad (IJMO), and is a two-time National Spelling Bee of Canada Champion.

He’s a Senior Y1 member of the International Junior Honor Society (IJHS), a lifetime member of MENSA, and a Junior MENSA Honor Society member. Altogether, he’s earned hundreds of awards in national and international competitions in math, computer science, science, and more.

Do Better.

None of these are particularly impressive other than the USAJMO qualification. Plenty of other USAJMO qualifiers could get similar awards in those random math competitions if they cared, but they don't because they aren't important. If he finds them fun then by all means he should keep doing what he finds fun, but the marginal college admissions value is negligible and perhaps even negative if you were to try to shove them in to the application. (His profile looks more "coached" and thus less impressive than if you had just said he was a 5th grade USAJMO qualifier)

Keep in mind the common app only has room for 10 extracurricular activities, and MIT only allows 4.

If you want to know what would be more effective at maximizing his long term college admit chances (I think you do), I would recommend math tutoring / starting a math club at the elementary/middle school, volunteering at a local math circle, branching out into physics or informatics Olympiads, doing various programs like Michigan Math and Science Scholars, all the classic summer math programs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/18f752r/indian_internationals_miraculous_journey_to/ - here's an example of the kind of genuinely impressive stuff people do.

I mean this is straight up wrong that portfolio is insanely impressive, even if coached, the kid is insanely talented and USAJMO definitely isn't the only "good award". Get a grip

Other than USAJMO, what else is impressive?