Nope, not college. You don't know anything about high school math contests or the motivations of students that do them, or anything about that world at all, an

Nope, not college. You don't know anything about high school math contests or the motivations of students that do them, or anything about that world at all, and amid irrelevant stories about your life you're just pretending that you do. To clarify: I think you don't know what kinds of problems they ask, what their contest format is like, what students learn and practice when preparing for them, how it affects students' interest in research mathematics and how it develops their abilities there. Why do I think that? Because instead of talking about the USAMO or ARML or the NSA's mail-in contest or anything specific about whether these contests actually harm or distract students' attention from what you think they should be doing, instead of rebutting the well-known "calculus trap" opinion or showing that you have any awareness of it, instead of showing knowledge of what students do to prepare for these contests, you've talked in abstractions, and there is no glue tying the words you are saying to objective reality.