Team USA returns to first place in Olympics of high school math

https://phys.org/ ^ | 7/12/18

[morphing libertarian]

I’m confused you posted, 6 competitors and six males (is that 12)

so the “competitors” are female and the males are not competitors.

[BBell]

Moral support?

[BBell]

Mihira?

[sima_yi]

This is clearly yet another example of White Privilege.

[nvskibum]

As a Harvard alum, I want to point out these are precisely the kind of kind of students Harvard’s admissions system is limits in the name of “diversity.”

A group representing Asian applicants to Harvard has filed a Federal law suit against Harvard charging that their admission system discriminates illegally.

This a case that bears close watching by those who wish for a colorblind system.

[RossA]

The girl is presumably one of the coaches from Carnegie-Mellon.

As to public schools, I would bet one or more come from the NY elite high schools...not yet sabotaged by Mayor DiBlaggio. I was the best math student in a Jesuit High School, by a long margin, but competing against Stuyvessant, Bronx Sci., Broiklyn Tech, etc, students was humiliating.

[Hot Tabasco]

Adam Ardeishar, Andrew Gu, Vincent Huang, James Lin, Michael Ren, and Mihir Singhal.

Not one Smith, Jones, Johnson or McIntosh among them.............LOL!

[Hot Tabasco]

The caption quoted in this thread is a little confusing. I'd assume that the seven people named in it are the seven people who aren't in a bear costume

Huh???

All you had to do is read the second paragraph in the article:

The six U.S. team members also took home five gold medals and one silver medal

Funny how that works out isn't it?

[Hot Tabasco]

As a Harvard alum, I want to point out these are precisely the kind of kind of students Harvard’s admissions system is limits in the name of “diversity.”

Based on what you just wrote, you're not serious about being a Harvard alum are you???????

[JoeFromSidney]

Evidently things have changed. When I got my PhD in Mathematics at Ohio State in 1960, the majority of my fellow students were white males, but even so lots of women. All of both sexes of European descent. Teachers were Americans, except for a Hungarian immigrant, a former officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, who was one of the best teachers I ever had. I have no idea what it's like there now

[Moltke]

Certainly beats qualifying for and winning the soccer World Cup...

Better? ;)

Seriously, though, who wouldn't prefer to have those kids in their country over some troglodyte ball-kickers/runners/jumpers/spear-chuckers? (Not that there is anything wrong with sporting competitions as such!)

[Lonely Bull]

The caption quoted in this thread is a little confusing. I'd assume that the seven people named in it are the seven people who aren't in a bear costume

Huh???

All you had to do is read the second paragraph in the article: The six U.S. team members also took home five gold medals and one silver medal

Funny how that works out isn't it?

The caption has seven names, there are seven people with visible faces in the picture, and it's initially tempting to read the caption as if the names match the faces.

[nvskibum]

Absolutely serious. It is very troubling, especially in the case of a school with a sordid history of religious quotas in the 1920’s.