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2002 is quite a while back, the problems have steadily increased in difficulty, try and look at a div 1 set now.

Also the competition is much tougher as back then I think the site was mostly open to people from the US while now you can see US is 6th in the rankings http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=country_avg_rating

That said as my experience goes (referred 23 inters who did internships at Google and 9 who got a full time offer), >1500 rating is pretty good at least for whiteboard coding and algorithms questions. That's not enough of course, huge gaps in other areas won't help you. But 1500 rating is a great start.