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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [/quote]
Well now you got me curious, so I did some research.

I ran a quick search on the AMC results I have (2004-2010).  You'll be happy to know that neither of the two exchange-students you named are listed as AMC honors winners for Sidwell in any of those seven years, so they don't appear anywhere in the numbers I collected.  When I ran a broader Google search, I discovered that one of them won a few math awards in the 2000-01 time-frame, and the other placed in a local math competition more recently.  But my earlier point remains -- it's certainly conceivable that some commended students were Chinese exchange students, but it seems pretty clear that most were not (unless perhaps they all adopted Anglicized surnames when they arrived in the US!).

Among all the other Sidwell honors students during those seven years, I see just two other students with that last name, with no indication whether they might be exchange students or not.  I also noted several other students with the same last name from other local DC schools like Blair & TJ, but again no indication whether they might be exchange students.

(BTW, I think I'm done with this discussion.  It's feeling a bit creepy to be researching individual students, and my curiosity is satisfied, so I am going to stand down.)[/quote]

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