Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three

Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three(xquant.substack.com)

29 points by nb_quant 1 year ago | 7 comments

lacker 1 year ago |

I think MIT has been specifically trying to recruit IMO winners - if you look at the Putnam winners recently MIT has been dominating. This wasn't the case until the past few years though.

For example see:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/four-peat-mit-students-first-place...

daveed 1 year ago | |

The recent MIT period of dominance correlates very well with professor who is coaching the team there.

nb_quant 1 year ago | |

It seemed like things began to change in the early nineties. I'm trying to track down who in the admissions office instigated it. I don't suppose you know?

singhrac 1 year ago | | |

At least when I was involved with math contests (early 2010s) it was more that there were a lot of ex-campers at MIT/Harvard, and that did a lot to convince me.

Po Shen did a lot to recruit students directly to CMU, but I'm not sure there was a similar direct line at MIT.

madcaptenor 1 year ago |

I'd also be interested to see this for Putnam fellows. It looks like there's been a start from Joe Gallian (https://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/PutnamCareer.pdf) which "part one" of this series links to.

nb_quant 1 year ago | |

I'll see what I can do!

sebg 1 year ago |