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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous]One last thing about the Sidwell math scores .... often the  highest scores are from the Chinese visiting students (since they have some exchange students).[/quote]
Ah yes, led to victory by the lesser-known "Tobin" and "Fernandez" branches of the Huang Dynasty ....  Very crafty of Sidwell.  Darn those Chinese ringers!

Gimme a break.[/quote]

I'm not the person who posted the comment you're quoting, but I did follow the suggestion to check the archives and it seems as if Sidwell may have a "Zhang Dynasty," to use your turn of phrase, wrt these math competitions.  A quick websearch confirms that Minhua Zhang and Hengchu Zhang came to Sidwell from China.  Don't know about Xiuyuan Zhang (whose results seem to be contemporaneous with Tobin's).

At any rate, "ringers" was your gloss -- not the PP's.  And it goes to the larger question I've been raising about whether/when a particular HS should be treated as producing this kind of mathematical talent/achievement.  Personally, I don't think it's surprising or illegitimate that students who come from abroad to attend US schools may be accepted in part because they're truly exceptional kids.
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