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A 17-year-old girl from a poor village in China beats students from Oxford and Harvard at a prestigious math competition
A Chinese girl studying at a vocational school beat students from leading universities in a math competition. Source: Collage.
Jiang Ping, a 17-year-old girl from a poor village in China, took 12th place out of 802 at the Alibaba World Math Competition. The student left behind students from Harvard, Oxford, and MIT, entering the top 20.
The first 85 participants of the competition will receive awards ranging from 2 to 30 thousand US dollars this year. This was reported by CNN.
It is known that the competition was launched in 2018 and is held online. Ping's high results were a real revelation, because usually students from poor educational institutions take the lowest places.
It is known that the student had the best math scores since elementary school. Later, she studied with a teacher who had been a finalist in the competition three times and had been studying this discipline in depth for the past two years.
Ping herself plans to go to college and graduate from Zhejiang University, the best academy in Hangzhou's e-commerce center.
However, due to certain restrictions, she can only apply to three colleges in Jiangsu province.
Despite the fact that the student is really gifted in math, she has been bullied online. In addition, teachers say that the girl may become a "missing Einstein" because her talents will be hidden in the Chinese education system.
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