Reply to MIT decisions out

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "MIT decisions out"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While it is true that kids who make it to that level are insanely talented at math, I truly hate the cottage industry it has built around contest math. Kids in early elementary school taking advanced geometry at AOPS… or functions. At this point, if you don’t start those classes at an early age, you really won’t do very well on the AMCs. Someone will point out some outliers and sure, maybe they exist, but not many of them… and the pressure and competition are absurd. At least in the DMV.[/quote]

The issue (at least after/during Covid) is the rampant cheating. Apparently, this year there were over a 100 kids who had perfect scores in AMC-12! For context, it used to be that scoring 120 was an achievement. Both last year and this, the exams were leaked and were available online on Discord for a fee. This fun activity has now succumbed to the ambitions of parents/kids trying to get a leg up in the college rat race.[/quote]

Cheating at an optional extra-curricular is pretty pathetic. You can just not do the math contest if it's not your thing.[/quote]

I know a kid that probably cheated their way to AIME.
He spent his entire youth on AMC 8 in elementary with excellent results but by the time AMC 10/12 came around, they were not making the cut for AIME.  
Then they started taking the test on make-up days at alternate sites and went from middling scores to top 5%.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics