Two students from Buchholz High School and one from Lincoln Middle School were among 242 of the top math students in the nation who took a grueling test to determine if they had a shot at the U.S.
On 8 p.m. on a Monday this October, students trickle into Mathematics 509. Professor Ovidiu Savin, the director of undergraduate studies for the math department, walks in, and the room goes silent.