We have filled all available spaces. Please check back in the fall to apply for SIMUW 2010.

SIMUW 2009 will run from June 28 to August 8, 2009. To be eligible for admission to SIMUW, you have to be a resident of Washington, British Columbia, Oregon, Idaho, or Alaska. Furthermore you must, by the summer of 2009, 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 2010 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. We no longer accept applications for this year. Please check back next year to apply for SIMUW 2010.

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 you are working on the problem set entitled "2009 Problems".

   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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