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Are you sure you want people with that sort of tendency? Having worked with high school students teaching them how to do actual math, and also how to think scientifically, the students who are good at math competitions but not much else are not generally that adaptive to good thinking. They frequently (not always, but often) only tackle problems that they are confident they can solve, and often don't have the ability to adapt to solving a problem of a type too far from what they are used to solving.
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