Testimonials
The following testimonials from university professors familiar with IMACS as well as from former IMACS students provide some insight into the unique opportunity IMACS affords its students:
"We have here at Harvard a young man who came out of the IMACS program. He was able to begin his mathematical studies at a very advanced level by taking a course usually taken by juniors and seniors, and he has been a straight A student. Our program in mathematics is the strongest in the nation and for him to be able to jump in with our best students and perform at the highest level is ample testimony of the strength of the program."
Professor Andrew M. Gleason, Harvard University
"I have personally examined some of the teaching concepts and materials that have been developed by IMACS. I have determined that they are of outstanding quality."
Professor Gerald Jay Sussman, MIT
"I believe the IMACS Computer Science course could revolutionize the way computing is taught at the high school level and, more importantly, excite many of our best minds to a study of computer science."
Professor Daniel P. Friedman, Indiana University
"I just finished my first year as a math major at Yale, and I wanted to write to give you an update, and to thank you for the preparation for college the IMACS way of thinking has given me ... When it came time for the first problem set to be turned in, I suddenly found that everybody in my dorm was asking me questions about problems that seemed to me to be as routine as filling out a form. I remember asking myself how anybody learns what a proof is without learning the IMACS way."
Scott Caplan, Yale and Harvard Law Graduate
"Before IMACS, I did not realize how interesting and exciting mathematics could be. IMACS not only developed an interest in mathematics, it taught me the advanced thinking and material to succeed in all my math classes and even in my general studies."
Jennifer Hernandez, MIT Graduate
"I wanted to say that I'm taking my first CS and EE course here at Harvard. In CS I was able to skip the intro course and so the first language I'm working with is LISP, which I am loving since it is so similar to Scheme. I've been doing very well on assignments and I'm really liking the experience I'm getting..."
Alex Lee, Harvard Graduate
"IMACS followed by Indiana University has proven to be an incredible winning combination! Ryan's IMACS accomplishments attracted the attention of Dan Friedman at IU, who in turn stated a number of rather fantastic things IU could do for Ryan if he went there. It took three years to prove Friedman's last and most important representation – that if Ryan impressed certain professors at IU, he could get into any school for his CS PhD. Well, that certainly proved to be true! He has been accepted by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Brown, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Northeastern, Indiana University and Illinois!"
Bill Newton, parent of an MIT Graduate
"My peers at college were very intelligent, but they struggled with real university math classes. I'm so glad I had the right foundation. Thank you, IMACS!"
Natasha Chen, USC Graduate
"My first CS class at Virginia Tech was a breeze compared to the material that IMACS covered when I was much younger...I can't thank you and the other IMACS instructors enough. I hadn't realized how much you had taught me. You had always told me that I knew much more material than I realized, but I never really believed you – until now!"
Erik Benoist, Virginia Tech Graduate