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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.

1. APPLICATION FORM. The application form is available as a PDF file. Please answer all the questions on the form.
2. 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.
3. MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS. A list of these problems is available as a PDF file. Make sure that with your application you submit solutions to the problem set entitled "2012 Problems" and not to the sample problem set which was posted on this page earlier.

   Applicants should submit solutions to the problem set even if not all problems are solved. Partial solutions will also be read and evaluated. 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.

4. 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.

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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