[TraceWoodgrains]

The author and I have discussed this elsewhere, but we had dramatically different experiences with competitive math, and I think part of the key is that he experienced it as a part of the college admissions grind, while I experienced it as an escape from the classroom to go do cool puzzles.

My major takeaway from his article was "The things we do in the high-stakes holistic admissions structure we've set up are insane" more than anything to do with competition math in specific.

[QuarterReptile]

Interestingly, his takeaway seems to be that it was probably all worth it.

[lupire]

The rat race is worth it for the winners, but bad for society overall.