CARNEGIE MELLON INFORMATICS AND MATHEMATICS COMPETITION will be held tomorrow in Pittsburg. We will leave this afternoon to attend it. CMU is a very good engineering school. Its computer science graduate school ranks top #2. Its math department’s ranking grows a lot after Prof. Po-Shen Loh came. I met Prof. Loh several times on different […]

Johns Hopkins Math Tournament Feb. 27th, we went to JHU the first to attend the JHMT. We have heard of JHMT for a while. My friend’s son Victor Xu has won my award in JHMT. It is the first time I visited JHU campus. It was in a cold Feb. Saturday. The Campus doesn’t look […]

Why are Asian parents so crazy about TJ? Is TJ really good for your kid? In recently years, University of Virginia has reduced its admission of TJ graduates from more than 100 to around 70. It also increase the GPA requirement. Many very bright kids were turned town by UVA for the low GPA. I […]

We know that MOPs program is the dream place for High School students who love math. MOPs Its main purpose is to train the USA IMO players and futures players. It has been at University of Nebraska Lincoln for many years. I am very glad that it is hosted in CMU this year and hope […]

go to following link: http://amc-reg.maa.org/Reports/GeneralReports.aspx you find lots of helpful information from there. 1. You choose a contest from there. You can find: AMC 10/12 02/05/2013 AMC 8 11/13/2012 AIME II 03/28/2012 AIME 03/15/2012 AMC 10/12 B 02/22/2012 AMC 10/12 A 02/07/2012 AMC 8 11/15/2011 AIME II 03/30/2011 AIME 03/17/2011 AMC 10/12 B 02/23/2011 AMC […]

2012 AMC 8 (http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e4-amc08/amc8.shtml) was held on Nov. 13, 2012. It was Tuesday. My son took AMC 8 through FCAG sponsored free AMC 8 test. (FCAG is a non-profit organization helping gifted and talented kids and their parents in Fairfax county. Actually, they don’t limited themselves for helping people in other places. Some students from […]

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have been ranked #1 for past three years. Most parents of Gifted kids want their kids to get into TJ and then go to top, selective colleges, Ivey Leagues the best. But most parents don’t know there are other choices for their very gifted kids – The […]

1. Harvard (98) 2. Georgetown (66) 3. U Pennsylvania (66) 4. Yale (57) 5. Columbia (56) 6. NYU (49) 7. Princeton (48) 8. Stanford (47) 9. Dartmouth (46) 10. Cornell (46) 11. Brown (45) 12. Duke (40) 13. Tufts (39) 14. Johns Hopkins (38) 15. MIT (37) 16. Middlebury (33) 17. U Chicago (30) 18. […]

TJ is the top public high schoo. Phillips Andover is the top private high school. You can compare the differences of the college destinations of both school. Amherst College: 1 Arizona State University: 1 Babson College: 1 Bard College: 1 Barnard College: 1 Bates College: 1 Boston College: 3 Boston University: 7 Bowdoin College: 2 […]

Here’s the list by most students attending: University of Virginia (116) William & Mary (34) Virginia Tech (27) Duke (25) Princeton (14) Carnegie-Mellon (11) MIT (10) Cornell (8) Dartmouth (8) Nortre Dame (8) Stanford U (7) University of Southern California (5) Johns Hopkins U (4) NYU (4) University of California-Berkeley (4) University of North Carolina […]