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[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] Olympiad winners in math end up doing PhDs in math and being successful in academia at a much higher rate than math majors in general. I agree that requiring English majors to be Olympiad medalists makes no sense, but it makes a lot more sense for math majors.[/quote]
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