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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Spring is in full swing and summer is right around the corner, what are your plans? At AoPS Online our schedule has new classes starting now through July, so be sure to keep your skills sharp and be prepared for the Fall school year! Check out the schedule of upcoming classes below.

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Hi everyone! INTEGIRLS Bay Area is excited to invite you to participate in our eighth biannual, free, virtual math competition. The event is open to all girls or non-binary individuals comfortable with being grouped with girls in middle or high school and will take place on Sunday, April 20th from 9 AM - 1:00 PM (PST).

If you're excited to dive into a day of math, make new friends, and win fun prizes, then we encourage you to sign up here!

**Note that the Bay Area chapter of INTEGIRLS writes their own problems, so you can participate in another INTEGIRLS chapter's Spring Competition as well :thumbup:

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WHO All middle school and high school students who identify as female or non-binary are invited to join our competition! You can sign up with teams of up to 4 people, or choose to be paired with other students at random.

WHAT Our competition will feature individual, team and tiebreaker rounds with problems written by our amazingly talented team, fun games and a social room to meet new people! There will be separate rounds for middle and high school students as well as exciting prizes for our participants.

WHEN The competition will take place on Sunday, April 20th from 9 AM to 1:00 PM (PST).

WHERE We will host the competition over Zoom, so students from all over the world may attend!

WHY Explore exciting math problems, make friends, and most of all, have fun! Through our competition, we hope to inspire a passion for math in more students, and by bringing together girls who love math together, we aim to create a community of future female mathematicians. Math is an amazing subject full of hidden puzzles and strategies, and together, we seek to create an event full of joy where girls bond over the beauty of the subject.

HOW Register for the competition now here!

CONTACT Feel free to email us at bayarea@integirls.org with any questions! Join our community on Discord, and follow us on Instagram at @integirls.bayarea :laugh:
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Hello everyone. I know this question may sound ridiculous/neagtive but I really want to know how the rest of the community thinks on this issue. Please excuse this yap session and feel free to ignore this post if it doesn't make sense, I don't think I really have a sane mind these days and something has gotten into my head.

I want your advice on what I should do in this situation. It has been my dream to make usamo since ~second semester of 9th grade and I started grinding from that time on. Last year, I qualified for the aime and got a 5. This year I really wanted to qualify for the olympiad and studied really hard. I spent my entire summer working on counting and probability, the subject I suck at the most. And yet, on amc 12, I fumbled hard. I usually mocked ~120-130s on amc 10s but on amc 12 this year, I got really mediocre scores ~100. So I had no chance of making usamo.

So during winter of 2024-2025 I kinda gave up on aime studying and I was like "hey, if I can't get into usamo, maybe ill qualify for usapho." Since I was pretty good at physics at that time. So I spended my winter hard grinding for f=ma and guess what? The test had stupid and ridiculous questions and I only got an 11. What really sucks is that even with the stupid amount of cheaters in f=ma, if I changed all of my "D" guesses to "C," then I would have qualified. Since I solved 10 actually and guessed the rest. Absolutely unfair that only 1 of my guesses were correct.

And also since I didn't study for aime, I ended up being super rusty and so I only got a 7. Solved 9 tho. (I usually can consistently solve 10+ on aimes).

And now here's my senior year and ofc I want to apply to a prestigious college. But it feels stupid that I don't have any usamo or usapho titles like the people I know do. I think I will have good essays primarily due to a varied amount of life experiences but like, I don't feel like I will contribute much to the college without being some prestigious olympiad qualifier. So this led to me having a self esteem issue.

This also led me to the question: should I study one last year so that I can get into usamo in my senior year, or is there no point? Since like, colleges don't care about whatever the hell you do in your senior year, and also, it seems just 'weird' to be grinding math contests while the rest of the people from my school are playing around, etc. So this time around I've really been having an internal crisis between my self esteem (since getting into usamo will raise my self esteem a lot) and college/senior choices.

I know this may seem like a dumb question to some and you are free to completely ignore the post. That's fine. I just really want advice for what I should do in this situation and it would really help bring my life quality up

Thanks,
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MOP Cutoffs Out?
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N Yesterday at 10:36 PM by Yrock
MAA has just emailed a press release announcing the formula they will be using this year to come up with the MOP cutoff that applies to you! Here's the process:

1. Multiply your age by $1434$, let $n$ be the result.

2. Calculate $\varphi(n)$, where $\varphi$ is the Euler's totient theorem, which calculates the number of integers less than $n$ relatively prime to $n$.

3. Multiply your result by $1434$ again because why not, let the result be $m$.

4. Define the Fibonacci sequence $F_0 = 1, F_1 = 1, F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}$ for $n \ge 2$. Let $r$ be the remainder $F_m$ leaves when you divide it by $69$.

5. Let $x$ be your predicted USA(J)MO score.

6. You will be invited if your score is at least $\lfloor \frac{x + \sqrt[r]{r^2} + r \ln(r)}{r} \rfloor$.

7. Note that there may be additional age restrictions for non-high schoolers.

See here for MAA's original news message.

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9 Which math contest is your favorite?
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N Yesterday at 10:23 PM by mdk2013
links for details on each comp

i think thats all the major ones, comment if you have any more that i forgot to include

upvote if you're like me and you think MATHCOUNTS is obv better!

EDIT: i forgot ARML and JBMO, comment if you like those
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HSMC Decisions
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Anyone know when HSMC decisions for round 2 come out? did anyone get theirs
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I'd say wait like a week. They took exactly a week for round 1 as well.
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