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There is a new procedure this year for new applicants. Most things will be submitted online. If you submit your initial application form online by the April 20 deadline, there is no application fee. Otherwise, there is a
late fee of $25.
See the form itself for details.
(If you have attended MathPath before or been admitted before, you have a different procedure explained here.)
There are 4 parts to the application process:
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Complete the
online application form.
Do this as soon as you know you are interested. It is free and allows us to be in touch with you. Either the applicant or a parent or guardian may fill out this form.
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Ask a teacher or math coach to complete the confidential
online academic recommendation form.
Direct your recommender to this "How to Apply" page on www.mathpath.org
(not .com) so s/he can click on the link. Also, give your recommender
your code number (explained below).
This recommender cannot be a parent of the applicant, except by special permission.
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Ask an adult who knows you well in a non-academic capacity to complete the
confidential online non-academic recommendation form.
This might be a family friend, music teacher, athletic coach, scout leader, chess coach, pastor, etc.
The recommender cannot be a parent of the applicant, except by special permission.
Direct your recommender to this "How to Apply" page on www.mathpath.org (not .com)
so s/he can click on the link. Also, give your recommender
your code number (explained below).
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Submit your work on the
Qualifying Test.
For this item only we encourage you to submit handwritten hardcopy by post.
The mailing address for submission is on the test and also at the bottom
of this page.
Why handwritten copy? Because unless you already know how to use math-writing software very well, your electronically produced solutions
are likely to omit figures and be too terse to qualify for
admission. What about submitting handwritten copies electronically?
You may scan your solutions into a pdf (not jpegs) and submit them as
a single file (not multiple single pages) in an email
attachment (e-address below). Even as a single pdf file,
your submsiion cannot be faint or blurry. If an electronic test submission is not dark and clear enough, we will ask you to resubmit hardcopy.
If you or your recommenders do not wish to submit online, you
or they may mail in the old paper forms available here:
Old Application Form,
Old Academic Recommendation Form and
Old Non-Academic Recommendation Form.
The mailing address is on each form and below.
However, we think you will find it easier and faster to submit online.
If you submit the paper application form, it must be accompanied by a check or money order for $25 made out to MathPath, whether you submit before
or after the April 20 deadline.
Your application is not complete until all 4 items are received.
We usually make an admissions decision within one week of receiving a full application. All decisions and other correspondence from us will be by email, so please check it regularly. If you are expecting a decision and have not received it, first check with your recommenders, and then check with our
Academic Director.
Normally, we will email any submitter within a few days of receiving their submission.
Code Number.
As part of submitting your online application form,
you will be asked to make up a 4-digit code number,
which you will then give to your recommenders. This will help us verify submissions and link them to you. Please make a record of your number, so you won't forget it.
Also, please look over the online form once before filling it out, and ask your recommenders to do the same. You may need to look up some information to fill out the form, and unfortunately you cannot save the form half done and come back to it after you get this information.
Registration. If you are admitted, we will email you word of your admission and attach a Registration Form. To reserve a seat, you must return this promptly by post along with a deposit of at least $1000, and you will have the option to pay in full at a reduced rate. Admission itself does not guarantee you a place at camp, because if you delay registering camp may fill up with other registrants. If you are eligible for financial aid, we will send information about that with the admission notice; your situation may affect when you pay as well as how much.
In the admission email, we will provide links to health forms,
various waivers, information on booking travel, and general information about camp (the Precamp Briefing). The waivers and health forms must be completed and returned to us by May 31, 2010. (Actually, you can check them out now if you want; in the navigation bar up and to the left, click on "Materials for Admitted Students".)
Importance of the Qualifying Test. The most important part of your application is the Qualifying Test. Do as well as you can, and do not rush.
It is better to take a few more days to think and write good solutions than to rush through the Test and submit sloppy incomplete solutions. For information on how we score it, see the instructions on the web copy of the test.
Contact Information.
All submissions and correspondence concerning admissions go to the
Academic Director, Prof Stephen B Maurer of Swarthmore College.
His email address is smaurer1@swarthmore.edu.
His postal address is:
Mathpath
c/o Prof Maurer, Math/Stat
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Swarthmore PA 19081
USA
Unless you are very close to a deadline or outside the USA, there is
no need to use express mail or priority mail; regular first class mail
is almost as fast and much less expensive.
Save your money for activities at camp!
Canadians: regular mail between Canada and the US is improving.
What you call Lettermail and the US calls first-class mail generally gets from anywhere in Canada to Swarthmore in a week.
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Last updated June 1, 2010
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