World Cup Challenge by Matt McGann '00
A little admissions fun during the World Cup.
Here at MIT, with our large population of international and immigrant students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I’m looking forward to watching many of the remaining games with such an intense group of students from around the world.
Today, I’d like to kick off the MIT Admissions World Cup Challenge. The Challenge is meant to be just for fun, and an interesting way to see just how many countries around the world come to MIT. Here’s the challenge:
In each World Cup group, name the country from which MIT received the most freshman applications this past year.
A few notes: There are no ties, and only three countries in the World Cup had zero applications submitted to MIT this year. Also, in Group E, we won’t count the USA (and not just because they played so poorly against the Czech Republic yesterday).
To recap, here are the groups:
Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, Poland
Group B: England, Paraguay, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago
Group C: Argentina, Cote d’Ivoire, Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro
Group D: Angola, Iran, Mexico, Portugal
Group E: Czech Republic, Ghana, Italy, USA*
Group F: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Japan
Group G: France, South Korea, Switzerland, Togo
Group H: Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tunisia, Ukraine
Good luck!
from my.mit.edu
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana/Czech Republic (Since you say no ties I’ll go with Ghana)
Group F: Brazil
Group G: South Korea
Group H: ? (I’ll choose… Ukraine)
You mean group E, not G, yes?
I’ll play…
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
Let’s see
A: Germany
B: England
C: Argentina
D: Iran
E: Italy
F: Japan
G: South Korea
H: Saudi Arabia
Just Guessing.
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Spain
This is fun!
A: Germany
B: Sweden
C: Netherlands
D: Mexico
E: Czech Republic
F: Japan
G: South Korea
H: Spain
Pure randomness!
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Portugal
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: France
Group H: Spain
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
My picks:
A: Costa Rica
B: England
C: Argentina
D: Mexico
E: Czech Republic
F: Australia
G: South Korea
H: Saudi Arabia
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Czech Republic
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Brazil
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Totally unintentionally, my picks match the first post (by Star).
I like this game
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: CИ•te d’Ivoire
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Japan
Group G: France
Group H: Spain
Poland
England
Netherlands
Mexico
Italy
Australia
South Korea
Saudi Arabia
send me an email of the correct answers. it’s cool that people are from all over the world come to one place to learn ^_^
Group A: Poland
Group B: Sweden
Group C: Netherlandsro
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Brazil
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Serbia and Montenegro
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Czech Republic
Group F: Australia
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Australia
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Spain
A: Germany
B: Sweden
C: Netherlands
D: Portugal
E: Italy
F: Japan
G: Switzerland
H: Spain
Group A: Poland
Group B: Trinidad & Tobago
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Brazil
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Group A: Germany
Group B: Sweden
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Portugal
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
When will the answers be revealed? I look forward to it
Group A: Costa Rica
Group B: Trinidad and Tobago
Group C: Serbia and Montenegro
Group D: Mexico (Or maybe it’s Iran….I’ll stick with Mexico)
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Australia
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
This is great! Keep the guesses coming. I’ll reveal the answers in a couple days.
A: Germany
B: England
C: Netherlands
D: Mexico
E: Italy
F: Japan
G: South Korea
H: Spain
a. Germany
b. Paraguay
c. Argentina
d. Mexico
e. Italy
f. Japan
g. South Korea
h. Spain
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Portugal
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Spain
(I have no idea what I’m talking about. Except maybe Group G.)
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
My guesses… some of the groups seem like they’d be pretty close, at least on the low end.
-Jared
Group A: Germany
Group B: Sweden
Group C: Netherlands,
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: Switzerland
Group H: Saudi Arabia
All right…my guess:
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: Switzerland
Group H: Saudi Arabia
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Iran
Group E: Czech Republic
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
Group A: Poland
Group B: Sweeden
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Czech Rep.
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Group A: Poland
Group B: Trinidad and Tobago
Group C: Serbia and Montenegro
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Ukraine
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Serbia and Montenegro
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Spain
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Netherlands
Group D: Iran
Group E: Czech Republic
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Spain
A: Germany
B: England
C: Serbia & Montenegro > Serbia
D: Mexico
E: Italy
F: Japan
G: South Korea
H: Spain
Might be a repeat, but…
A. Germany
B. England
C. Argentina
D. Mexico
E. Ital
F. Japan
G. France
H. Spain
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: France
Group H: Spain
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Italy
Group F: Japan
Group G: South Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
This is so random and fun.
so what’s the prize for winning?
Group A: Germany
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: Mexico
Group E: Ghana
Group F: Japan
Group G: Korea
Group H: Saudi Arabia
A: Germany
B: England
C: Argentina
D: Mexico
E: Italy
F: Japan
G: France
H: Spain
Heh. Matt, if you think MIT has World Cup fever…I’m living in downtown Lausanne, Switzerland, for two months. It’s nuts! *grin*
I’m a romanian ,my country didn’t make it on the World Cup, and we have a tradition in football. Seems that not everyday is sunday, so my favorite teams for WC2006 are Argentina or Brasil.
By the way McGann ,yesterday i had found something weird on algebra calculation, more exacly on the number 9. This number acts very strange on calculations. To be more clearly the rest of the numbers 0 to 8 follows a specific logic pattern whereas the 9 is more special. I will give you an example:
I ‘v made a general identification of 9 on algebra, and it is like this: 9 X a = 9 the S of P (S=sum ,P=prod), the key of this proposition is S. To have a true proposition we say that “a” must be diferent from 0. And we can get:
A: 9 X 1 = 9 where the sum of product is 9 + 0 =9
B: 9 X 2 = 18 so 1 + 8 = 9
C: 9 X 3 = 27 so 2 + 7 = 9
D: 9 X 4 = 36 so 3 + 6 = 9
………………………..
V: 9 X 345 = 3105 so 3 + 1 + 0 + 5 = 9
Z: 9 X 8436 = 75924 doesn’t take a true value in with respect from the 9 X a = 9 the S of P (S=sum ,P=prod). So what we can say about this number how does he evolve on calculations . The number “a” on one digit seems to respect fully from 1 to 9. When appears “a” with 2 digits a 9 Sum of Product “sequence” appears, for example:
9 X 11 = 99 9 + 9 = 18 > 1+8 = 9
9 X 12 = 108 1 + 0 + 8 = 9
9 X 13 = 117 1 + 1 + 7 = 9
9 X 14 = 126 1 + 2 + 6 = 9
…………………………
9 X 22 = 198 1 + 9 + 8 = 18 > 1+8 = 9,
The algebra gets very complicated so i will not go in detail because : if you are looking more deep you will see that 9 X 21 = 189 were you can say that is an nonmonotonic relation , but in my opinion is very possible to hide a interesting evolution of 9, different from other numbers. I called the 9 universal numerical order. It is also very possible not to be evolutive and be just calculations , thats way i’l ask you if you no something about this.
I’m a romanian ,my country didn’t make it on the World Cup, and we have a tradition in football. Seems that not everyday is sunday, so my favorite teams for WC2006 are Argentina or Brasil.
By the way McGann ,yesterday i had found something weird on algebra calculation, more exacly on the number 9. This number acts very strange on calculations. To be more clearly the rest of the numbers 0 to 8 follows a specific logic pattern whereas the 9 is more special. I will give you an example:
I ‘v made a general identification of 9 on algebra, and it is like this: 9 X a = 9 the S of P (S=sum ,P=prod), the key of this proposition is S. To have a true proposition we say that “a” must be diferent from 0. And we can get:
A: 9 X 1 = 9 where the sum of product is 9 + 0 =9
B: 9 X 2 = 18 so 1 + 8 = 9
C: 9 X 3 = 27 so 2 + 7 = 9
D: 9 X 4 = 36 so 3 + 6 = 9
………………………..
V: 9 X 345 = 3105 so 3 + 1 + 0 + 5 = 9
Z: 9 X 8436 = 75924 doesn’t take a true value in with respect from the 9 X a = 9 the S of P (S=sum ,P=prod). So what we can say about this number how does he evolve on calculations . The number “a” on one digit seems to respect fully from 1 to 9. When appears “a” with 2 digits a 9 Sum of Product “sequence” appears, for example:
9 X 11 = 99 9 + 9 = 18 > 1+8 = 9
9 X 12 = 108 1 + 0 + 8 = 9
9 X 13 = 117 1 + 1 + 7 = 9
9 X 14 = 126 1 + 2 + 6 = 9
…………………………
9 X 22 = 198 1 + 9 + 8 = 18 > 1+8 = 9,
The algebra gets very complicated so i will not go in detail because : if you are looking more deep you will see that 9 X 21 = 189 were you can say that is an nonmonotonic relation , but in my opinion is very possible to hide a interesting evolution of 9, different from other numbers. I called the 9 universal numerical order. It is also very possible not to be evolutive and be just calculations , thats way i’l ask you if you no something about this.
I forgot to introduce my self , my name is Stefan Dan , i’m from Romania and this fall i will make my application for MIT.