<p>"For some students from East and South East Asia, for example, winning a gold medal guarantees access to a university of choice and a fellowship. In some Western European countries and the United States, a medal brings almost no advantages of that kind to the student. "</p>
<p>Is this statement true? Because after being on CC for a while I had thought that getting a medal was a very good hook, whereas here it states " a medal brings almost no advantages". What's up with that?</p>
<p>That statement is definitely false. Where did you read that?</p>
<p>Wikipedia...</p>
<p>it is prestigious.</p>
<p>It must've been posted by a jealous kid who didn't have an international medal.</p>
<p>Wikipedia is the devil!</p>
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LMAO......</p>
<p>lol we should all write false things on wikipedia to have less competition :p</p>
<p>Made me laugh, but then again.. I hate olympiads/intel/siemens, they make everything so difficult :)</p>
<p>oops, I think I wrote that. jkjk roflmaopsp</p>
<p>Wow, this provided quite a laugh.</p>
<p>If you have a international olympiad medal, you're pretty hooked.</p>