<p>Very interesting article. I’ve always wondered about the role of competitions – whether that’s the best way to pull in more middle and high school students.</p>
<p>As for the difficulty of packaging a group of kids to a single institution, there is an interestesting article in New York Magazine on how Columbia just put together a deal to attract 10 new economics faculty – by picking those who might like to work together, and keeping them informed of how negotiations were proceeding with the others. They landed almost all of their first picks.</p>