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[quote=Anonymous]I think the answer depends upon 1. how good your son is and 2.how much time is he going to have to spend preparing and competing.

If he does enter some competitions, how well is he likely to do in them? Just  entering is unlikely to boost his admissions chances. I don't mean he has to place first in an international competition, but there are a heck of a lot of good pianists out there and coming in 15th in a state wide competition is unlikely to help. If he's likely to be in the top 3, that's different. I mean it would be better to be the winner of an international competition, of course, but it might help some to be top 3 in a state.

How much time is he going to have to devote to preparing and competing? If realistically, he's going to have to spend 4 hours a day for 6 months preparing and spend 5 weekend days a month competing, I think it's a non-starter. If there's some lcompetition he can enter via video for the initial round, maybe it's worth spending an hour doing it and seeing what happens.

At least some colleges accept music supplements from non-music majors and what the music faculty thinks of the submission generally matters more than the results of competitions. See this link for info re submitting a music supplement to MIT. https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/supplemental_materials/ Others colleges do not accept them; Carnegie Mellon is one such..

If you're son is a genuinely talented musician, it might be worth while to ask the schools he is interested in if they recommend submitting musical supplements.

Another factor to keep in mind....math and musical abilities are often paired. So, musical ECs are fairly common among math majors, which is probably part of the reason MIT has so many student musical groups.

If your son has a high AIME score and competed in ARML or whatever the current competition is, that will help a lot more.

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