在 ACM竞赛中，为什么美国的公认的计算机名校，如 MIT，斯坦福、加州伯克利、卡内基梅隆，表现不如中国和俄罗斯的高校？- 国外网站的解释

阳光穿透心脏的1/2处 2022-06-10 01:28 66阅读 0赞

As Robert mentioned, I think the main thing is that the level of competition has increased to an amount of commitment beyond whatmost people are willing to put in.

Iwas a coach at the ACM ICPC in 2005and heard a similar story about the Shanghai Jiao Tong University teampracticing all day for the entire previous summer. When I was on theCaltech team, the team members weren't decided until a few monthsbefore the contest, and we only practiced a few hours a month, mainlybecause everyone on the team had other competing demands on theirtime.  
In the US, the best students have opportunities to do research withprofessors that will lead to them basically being guaranteed admissioninto a top graduate school,  
they have easy access to internships at thetop companies, and they don't have as much to gain by winning. In othercountries, especially with worse economies, therearen't as many goodalternative ways to spend time, and doing well can significantly increaseeveryone's opportunities. The cultures in those particular countries alsoreinforce math and science and increase the pool of potentialcontestants.  
I think this is mainly true of ICPC - if you look at the IOI (a high school contest) there are a much wider variety of countries represented among the top finishers, though Russia, China, and Poland are still strong there too.