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I don't think competitive academics is really a thing that has a lot of visibility in mainstream American culture. Raw competition mostly happens in athletics.
by jordanb 10y ago
I don't think competitive academics is really a thing that has a lot of visibility in mainstream American culture. Raw competition mostly happens in athletics. Much more niche are "cerebral" games like chess. Once you get into competitive academics like Math Olympiad you're very niche.
PS: This article is a submarine for Hackerrank.
- mturmon 10y agoAye-aye, USS Betteridge, surfacing for clickbait now, sir.
- flukus 10y agoHaven't things like spelling bees and mathletics been quite big lately? Or is TV giving me a false impression?
- BrailleHunting 10y agoUnlike getting a plurality of IITians together. ;) In the US, ACT/SAT scores and # of acceptance letters/incentives are the closest to undergrad bragging rights/proxy for rank. There are numerous competitions in varous academic subjects, but no official/harder national ordering/score system. Next, in US universities, more areas than just test scores are used to build an internal student candidate evaluation packet in the acceptance filtering processes to select people using more than test scores alone. Finally, the vast majority of US students aren't used to actual hard work... this is the real productivity / aptitude / capability killer.