<p>What interested me…
Semifinalists
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<p>Regional Finalists
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<p>oooooooh! andover, choate & hotchkiss seem to send in a lot of kids. but why do i think that so many whatever finalist have an asian origin last name… especially korean and chinese…</p>
<p>btw @DAndrew, do you have any list of other states winners?</p>
<p>Wow, almost all Asian last names. Think they have Tiger Mothers?</p>
<p><a href=“Siemens Foundation - About us - USA”>Siemens Foundation - About us - USA;
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<p>GMT-
Im currently in an international school in China (my dad needs to work there, so he brought me here :p). I think math and science courses in public schools here are very rigorous so … such results are not so astonishing.</p>
<p>@Leminte,</p>
<p>I think the competition is in the U.S., so the quality of public schools in China may not be a direct factor.</p>
<p>Thx DAndrew.</p>
<p>@GMT
I think their parents or greatparents may come from China so they may force their kids to take more science courses or so. Some may also be international …
Anyway, just a guess, I don’t know that well…</p>
<p>Yay for the young woman from St. Andrew’s School!!!</p>
<p>Is there a reason no New Hampshire schools are on the list?</p>
<p>i feel like asking the same question as Sevendad’s.</p>
<p>Is the question: Why are there no Exeter kids on the list (while there are 4 Andover ones), when Exeter has a reputation for being a maths & science school?</p>
<p>I don’t understand too much about this competition, but I’m just going to say, at our city science fair, almost all the high school winning projects are people doing their parent’s research…</p>
<p>Andover actually caught some admitted students whose parents wrote their application essays, so it wouldn’t surprise me any more if some parents factually did the leg work for this sort of competition. If you hear one day some high school student has just won Nobel Physics prize, you know this game may have got way out of hand.</p>
<p>These kids deserve praise – not wildly unsupported allegations that unfairly denigrate their well-earned achievements.</p>
<p>I guess most of people after hanging around CC for a while would get used to the fact that some people are “for” a certain school and some are “against” it, but I’m still surprised how mean-spirited and logically wrong some of the comments could be. Suppose hootoo is a prep school student and was assigned the work of writing an argument “against Andover”, wouldn’t he/she be asked the following questions: 1. What’s the source for “Andover actually caught some admitted students whose parents wrote their application essays”? 2. Is it a widespread or ‘representative’ phenomena in Andover? 3. Is it unique to Andover or could it happen in any other school as well? 3. Does the fact (?) that some of them were caught in Andover mean it is more serious an issue in Andover than in other schools? 4. Regardless what the truth is, is it logically sound to draw the conclusion that Andover students’ Siemens Competition work was done by their parents based on the fact (?) that some students’ application essays were written by their parents? 5. Even if it was the truth, again is this unique to Andover and could it be used to explain why there are more Andover students in the semifinalists list? 6. So does the fact that Andover has more semifinalists than its peer schools just mean Andover parents in general are better researchers than parents in other schools???</p>
<p>Let me help you out. How about likely students do their own research outside school for Siemens Competition so their success doesn’t mean their school’s success. And, it so happens that there are more Andover students this year. There could be more from Exeter next year or even last year… Well, whatever prep school hootoo is attending has a lot of work to do.</p>
<p>I guess I forgot to clarify; when I said “our” city science fair, I meant the city I’m living in right now, which is nowhere near NE. So no bad impressions for Andover. (Heck, I’m applying there!)</p>