<p>OMG, I go away for a few hours and when I come back it’s all about MIT/USAMO/IMO again. </p>
<p>I am going to head to the dance forum. It’s got to be safe over there.</p>
<p>Yeah, really. They really know how to put the damper on a party, don’t they?</p>
<p>I’m just hanging around because I consider this thread an appropriate warm-up for tonight’s episode of Game of Thrones. ;)</p>
<p>I have to say that those discussions about Math Olympiads are even more boring than the London opening ceremony. Was it really needed to revive the same stuff from that MIT thread? </p>
<p>I’m voting for a dedicated thread a la Affirmative Action to contain the contents and keep a lid on this repetitive and irrelevant drivel.</p>
<p>Voila. I added my own little vial of vitriol to this thread. Or am I channeling Little Suzy and saying what i really think with real bad humor. Who knows!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1486815-if-i-have-295-5-usamo-index-perfect-aime-score-will-i-get-into-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1486815-if-i-have-295-5-usamo-index-perfect-aime-score-will-i-get-into-college.html</a></p>
<p>May be we can strip math Olympiad discussions and add them to this chance thread.</p>
<p>I think you’re pretty critical of those opening ceremonies, Xig. Just sayin’</p>
<p>Hey, there’s a kid on the Harvard board who has a difficult, math related issue about a scholarship to Washington and Lee. Maybe some of you could go help her out.</p>
<p>collegealum314, didn’t you notice I spent my time to calculate average ranks, so you would not have to decide by eyeballing? The average rank for US = 4, and the average rank for Russia = 3 (for 1991 - 2012). And 3 < 4, which means Russia outperformed US during these years. Now if you look even further, Russia did much better than US prior to 1991, but I didn’t want to include years before the break up of USSR.</p>
<p>Stats fever.</p>
<p>How are there, on average, two Popes per square mile?</p>
<p>"Don’t these schools require a letter of recommendation from a US Senator to be accepted? Seems to me that would imply very high connections and those with such connections would generally be expected to be offered superior pay opportunities. "</p>
<p>No, cobrat is right-as well, high school students have to put a packet together basically explaining what they’re accomplishing in and out of school and why they deserve a nomination. My nephew is applying next year to one of the service academies and he has a commander from his Civil Air Patrol helping him with this. He knows NO ONE in any high place, but he is working with people who can help him take the necessary steps. He’'s also well aware (to keep this on-topic) that the chances of getting in are even smaller than to HYP, for which he is entirely qualified. So he has backups to his backups. But I sure hope he gets in. His family has nothing and this brilliant kid needs a way out of his little town without much to offer him.Back to your regularly scheduled infighting.</p>
<p>^^ they don’t need to be breathing?</p>
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<p>Because the area of the Vatican is 0.5 square miles and it (usually) has one Pope.</p>
<p>Just taking the idea of averages to its absurd extreme.</p>
<p>that was my guess :p</p>
<p><a href=“Opinion | The Secrets of Princeton - The New York Times”>Opinion | The Secrets of Princeton - The New York Times;
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<p>I haven’t looked up the acreage to confirm it, but I assumed this post meant that the tiny country of the Vatican covers only a half of a square mile. And with only one Pope that works out to an average of two popes per square mile.</p>
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<p>Yes, I did notice. However, I was commenting on the past 10 years, not the past 20 years.</p>
<p>0.5 square mile for an autonomous country sounds really small. I was under the impression there are driving distances!</p>
<p>I love this article!!!</p>
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<p>No, please don’t on my account. I think those posts are typical. As I said, several posted by ■■■■■■ and kids with fewer than 20 posts. The first is some kid comparing two elite schools -Rice and Harvard. Obvious ■■■■■. THere are a couple other obvious ■■■■■■ in there stirring things up. </p>
<p>On the flip side, the threads that are even half-way serious merely question whether the schools are worth it -often affirming that top schools and Ivies are certainly fine schools. Merely mild disagreements or discussions on the value of attendingbthose schools. I would hardly call that “Ivy bashing”. And there are easily as many pro top school posters on all of those threads.</p>
<p>I have read this site plenty. I am not interested in doing triage through a hundred random posts, sorintg out posts from mischievous kids and ■■■■■■. I know full well about the balance of opinion on this website. Honestly, I can’t believe anyone even disputes it with a straight face.</p>
<p>If you can find posts where somebody specifically claims you will have difficulty finding a job unless you attend community college or a local third tier directional, posted by a credible adult poster making a serious claim, that I’d be interested to read. Or by a serious thoughtful kid making such a claim.</p>
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<p>think golf.</p>
<p>Read Patton’s letter before the response.</p>
<p>You’re going to hate this, but I see the humor in her letter.</p>