<p>lol hazmat, I bet those two people were TK and Tony. Only 250 people make it to the USAMO every year. Lots of Exonians make it to AIME though.</p>
<p>Mr. Feng is a "Math Avid," a Canadian coined term for "they like math problem solving - what the heck are they doing there. Who are they?" I go to the local University for my weekly problem solving exposure, Mr. Feng would be your guy for Math competitions and problem solving. coolblue07, that means he may or may not necessarily be the best course Mathematics teacher. Will you get him for weekly problem solving? Definitely.</p>
<p>Any techies here? PREACH! Whoever's a techy, go fix the current state of boarding school technology. (APCS consists of Java...sad...). Someone tell dem schools to get Python, FORTRAN, Small C, or at LEAST C++!. Where we gonna get da war machines er tech projects? PIII comps? Borland or J++. Neither! </p>
<p>printf("
Someone tell em!
Preach some new Programming languages!")</p>
<p>return()</p>
<p>Exeter has soooooo many math people. Someone be a techy!!! Please!!!!</p>
<p>citygirlsmom, are you from NYC? Did you consider Stuyvesant? Good tech! Stuyvesant is ub32 l337 <a href="mailto:h@x02">h@x02</a>. Exeter, please get more than just JAVA!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>thats what my parents are saying too, but my mom really really really doesnt want me to leave. she thinks my dad and i are insane. anybody have any ideas about how to make her understand. ive tried to explain that this is a once in a lifetime op. but she doesnt go for it...</p>
<p>lawrencevillehopeful, if my wife changed her mind there's hope. it's going to take alot of educating on you dad and your part. you need to get her to go to the revisit days. to be sure, it took a long time for my wife to come arround. when she did she has been 100% plus supportive. best of luck to you.</p>
<p>LawrencevilleH. Encourage her to read everything you can get her to on the boarding schools in which you are interested. Get her to come here on this site. If you have friends who board have them talk to her. We are dying to visit, with our S. She should go too, that may be the clincher.</p>
<p>LH, where do you live in relation to the bs' schools that have acepted you?</p>
<p>jthecanadian - Exeter had ELEVEN people qualify for the USAMO last year.
Charles Chen 11 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Shigeta Fujitani 10 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Gary Ri 10 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Oleg Golberg 12 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Hayoung Kim 12 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Taehyeon Ko 10 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Bryan Koo 11 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Tiankai Liu 12 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
James Qi 11 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Kijun Seo 10 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH
Tony Zhang 12 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter NH </p>
<p>Pretty ridiculous... and it also had 3 of the 6 IMO team members for USA - Tony, Tiankai and Oleg Goldberg.</p>
<p>WOW.</p>
<p>Hahaha funny how most of them are Asian.</p>
<p>LOL
1 Russian, 10 Asians. And Russia (at least eastern Russia) is part of Asia, no?</p>
<p>I've always wondered where Russia's part of...</p>
<p>same...</p>
<p>I have another question out of curiosity: does anyone know the acceptance stats for the elite 7? like Andover's this year I think was 1 in 15.</p>
<p>I have no idea, it would be interesting to know. But I'm sure the admissions ppl will tell you if you call and ask them or something.</p>
<p>has anyone heard from:
wquang 37
regis
redfern
280W
fantom
nightflarer
i know there must be others</p>
<p>i was talking to regis on aim yesterday i think...</p>
<p>lol, nightflarer. nm.</p>
<p>any news from them on schools they applied for.</p>
<p>not nyc, another big city, but if I say......</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't remember, but I'm sure once they come back they'll post the news.</p>
<p>The one I am most curious about is cubfan who, for all the right reasons wanted to go to Deerfield but was pretty pessimistic about his chances. Hope he made it. Wondered why he did not hedge his bets by applying to Peddie which in my opinion is the sleeper among the schools and with the Annenberg money behind it well on its way to define itself as a really great school.</p>
<p>In that vein lawrencevillehopeful: suggest that your mother get the papers of the colloquium on boarding schools which was held at St. Paul's in June 2002. Martin Marty, a truly great University of Chicago scholar was presider and if she follows the trail she will discover what these places are really about. We also agonized a great deal about sending two of our children to boarding school at the tender age of 14.
Although we looked at other schools, we consider ourselves singularly blessed that they got into and went to St. Paul's. In the end an education is not so much about the courses you take as about the people you meet. To my mind the mark of a school is how it encourages young students to combine intelligence with the language and spiritual sensitivity required for scholarship. In the end one picks a school not so much on its reputation for brilliance as on its idea of what consititutes an education. If your mother shares the St. Paul's conviction that an education is as much or more about asking hard questions, about poetic imagination, about humanity and humaneness, about intellectual honestly and moral courage than about brilliance, Lawrenceville might be your spot. We sent our children 3000 miles to St. Paul's and never regretted it for a minute. I doubt that your mother would regret her decision to let you go if you really want to get an education that no other school could offer you.</p>
<p>i live in virginia</p>
<p>wow, thanks so much for the advice</p>