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I want supercurriculars in my math part for CS+MATH BSc please help!

Non-olympiad kid here. My goal is to get into CS + math in imperial/edinburgh/UCL. I've got my supercurriculars for CS set, but now I'm trying to put my supercurricular focus on math (I'm lacking). Here are some 'roadmaps' I've considered: - study the informatics olympiad, within it there is maths. Explore topics that I'm interested within it if I encounter one, and I could potentially win coding competitions from my studies - Do summer school - Wider reading + reflection - STEP support programme Which one do u guys think will benefit me the most? I haven't tried any of those, so I'd like to get your opinion to pick my first target. Leave a comment and share your opinions on the values and effectiveness on each one and which one do you think is the most useful to college applications!
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Non-olympiad kid here. My goal is to get into CS + math in imperial/edinburgh/UCL. I've got my supercurriculars for CS set, but now I'm trying to put my supercurricular focus on math (I'm lacking). Here are some 'roadmaps' I've considered: - study the informatics olympiad, within it there is maths. Explore topics that I'm interested within it if I encounter one, and I could potentially win coding competitions from my studies - Do summer school - Wider reading + reflection - STEP support programme Which one do u guys think will benefit me the most? I haven't tried any of those, so I'd like to get your opinion to pick my first target. Leave a comment and share your opinions on the values and effectiveness on each one and which one do you think is the most useful to college applications!

As well as bio/oxbridge lists/... theres the euler project which is a mix of maths/cs projects, the advent of code challenges which focus on testing/performance (somewhat similar to bio), part of mat covers cs as well (q6?) so that may be worth looking at, ... Personally, Id say do some reading of a few of the suggested books, watch some pop videos about different topics and do some projects (bio/euler/advent/...). The ps should really talk about what you found interesting/learnt, rather than "i did this and that and ....".

Not sure about general entry requirements, but imperial says that step is generally not required. But check.
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