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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges look for future leaders, that concept is vastly different from Olympiad winners.  Olympia competition is limited to math, physics, chemistry, biology, information science.  Limiting seats to Olympia winners is an extremely weird idea.  The majority of math Olympia winners end up at Jane Street and Citadel.  Do we want that for our society as a whole? Naw.

I think, if anything, we should exclude these Olympia people from the top colleges.  They are free to attend state universities and such.  [/quote]

That’s one of the most stupid comment I’ve read on this forum.

Are you afraid they ruin the curve at your kid’s Ivy?

Doing well in those competitions or other stem competitions for that matter, builds critical thinking and resilience, plus that they have a higher IQ than most kids. [/quote]
What would you do to test the other 50% of the campus that aren't in these specific testable majors?[/quote]

There are only a few hundred campers each year, can’t even fill a liberal art college.  [/quote]

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