Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
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Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
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Re: Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
#2I 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...
Re: Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
#3I 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...
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?
Re: Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
#4I 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...
The recent MIT period of dominance correlates very well with professor who is coaching the team there.
Re: Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
#5I'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.
Re: Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
#6I 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...
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?
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.
Re: Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three
#7I'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.
I'll see what I can do!