Dario Amodei's 2004 college-application page: USAMO qualifier, real analysis at 17
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-27
A 2004 web archive screenshot shows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's college-application page from age 17:
- Lowell High School, SF; skipped ahead in math from 8th grade, finished AP Calculus BC as a freshman
- Took Abstract Algebra and Honors Mechanics at UC Berkeley in high school; completed Real Analysis and Honors E&M
- Multiple USAMO qualifier; Bay Area team placed 2nd nationally in 1999; ARML invitee
- Stanford Math Camp (SUMAC) invitee for complex analysis, plus a physics olympiad camp
- Also athletic: 4:57 mile, 2:12 800m
He wrote he hoped to attend Caltech or MIT — he ended up at Stanford.
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