Perhaps this might cheer you up - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-program-now/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/

Perhaps this might cheer you up - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-program-now/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/03/17/1980-math-... Or perhaps not. In that blog, Gelman speaks of Gregg, who ended up as a GS VP, and says - math olympiad = high school basketball star pro mathematician = NBA player Goldman Sachs VP = sports hustler I actually worked with Gregg in fixed income at that time :) Gelman's blogpost received sufficient notoriety, atleast within GS & the IB community.