Prizes

The USAMTS awards prize books, mathematical software, and T-shirts to the top 45% of students, with a maximum of 500 prize recipients. The prize levels are:

Gold winners each receive 3 prize books, silver and bronze winners each receive 2 prize books, and honorable mention winners receive 1 prize book. Higher prize levels get to select their prizes sooner. Recent prize books include:

All prize recipients will also receive free subscriptions to Wolfram software. In 2024–2025, eligible students received free one-year subscriptions to WolframOne. We thank Wolfram Research for generously donating these prizes.

Additionally, all prize recipients receive a USAMTS T-shirt featuring one of the problems from the year’s contest.

All students who score 68 or higher (out of 75) on the USAMTS qualify to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), which is the second contest in the process of selecting the team that will represent the USA at the International Mathematical Olympiad. These students will then be considered for potential USAMO and USAJMO qualification based only on their AIME score, just as if they had qualified for the AIME through the AMC. The cutoffs for USAMO and USAJMO qualification for students qualifying for the AIME through the USAMTS will be the same as the respective cutoffs for students qualifying for the AIME through the AMC 12 and AMC 10.

Students in 11th and 12th grades who qualify for the AIME through the USAMTS will be considered for potential USAMO qualification.

In most cases, students in 10th grade and below who qualify for the AIME through the USAMTS will choose (prior to the AIME) whether they would like to be considered for potential USAMO qualification vs. USAJMO qualification, since students can only be potential qualifiers for one Olympiad contest. However, a student who also qualifies for the AIME through the AMC 12 would be considered for potential USAMO qualification (and not USAJMO qualification).

As we receive questions from students, we reserve the right to make clarifications to the above policy.

This qualification pathway is only for students who qualify for the AIME via the USAMTS.