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We have filled all available spaces. Please check back in the fall
to apply for SIMUW 2009.
SIMUW 2008 will run from June 29 to August 9, 2008. To be eligible
for dmission to SIMUW, you have to be a resident of Washington,
British Columbia, Oregon, Idaho, or Alaska. Furthermore you must, by
the summer of 2008, have completed three years of high school
mathematics, including algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, and not
yet have graduated from high school.
If you are interested in SIMUW 2008 and anticipate that you will
apply, please provide us with the information requested on the accompanying form. This will allow
us to keep in touch with you about our plans for the program as they
continue to develop.
An application to SIMUW has four components: an application form, a
decription of your academic record, solutions to some mathematical
problems, and a letter of recommendation. Here are more details on
each of these items.
- APPLICATION FORM. The application
form is available as a PDF file. Please answer all the
questions on the form.
- ACADEMIC
RECORD. Please provide a description of the
mathematical topics at the high school level that you have studied,
indicating the specific textbooks used and chapters studied. Include
also a copy of your official transcript, which you can obtain from
your school office. If you are in a Running Start program, include a
copy of your community college transcript. If you are a home-schooled
student, the description of topics will suffice.
- MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS.
A list
of these problems
is
available as a PDF file.
Make sure that you are working on the problem set entitled "2008 Problems".
Please send in legible, handwritten solutions that reflect how you
thought about the problems. Do not send just answers. We are
interested in seeing how you have arrived at your conclusions. For an
indication of our expectations with regard to these solutions please
see our examples.
While you are working on the problems, you may consult any books or
journals, but you are not allowed to ask anyone for
help. Please note that in order to be accepted to our program you do
not need to solve all of the problems on the list. The important issue
is that we get an idea about the way you approach them.
- RECOMMENDATION LETTER. A
recommendation form is available as a PDF
file. Please give this form to a mathematics teacher who has worked
closely with you and is familiar with your ability and motivation. If
you are home schooled, you may give the form to your parent or other
mathematics instructor.
If you prefer, we can send copies of the application form,
mathematical problems, and recommendation form to you. Just request
them via email, phone,
or letter.
Please send the first three items to the address below and ask your
teacher to send the completed recommendation form to this address
under separate cover.
SIMUW Department of Mathematics University of
Washington Box 354350 Seattle, WA 98195-4350
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