Is it worth preparing for the Olympics?

Question

IT education

In the middle of the 10th grade, I became interested in programming, but I didn’t have time to do it and I have almost no experience. Now (in August) I made a small list of universities where I want to enter, but I realized that it makes no sense to enter without Olympiads. So I’m thinking of preparing for the first stages of the Olympiads in a month, to score on school studies and the Unified State Examination, and then for another six months to prepare for the final stages. Well, or choose something simpler and cramming the Unified State Examination for the maximum score, well, read books on programming (such as self-study)
(I never wrote Olympiads in mathematics and computer science before)

Possible olympiads: Phystech Olympiad, Highest standard, Kurchatov Olympiad, All-Siberian Open Olympiad schoolchildren (in general, those who will help to enter St. Petersburg State University, the Higher School of Economics, and the like)

Answer 1

You have probably heard about Pavel's telegrams and show-offs about olympiads, and how normal programmers smashed them. The main problem of the Olympiads, in my opinion, is the solution of the problem in 42 seconds. Let it be a curve, but meet the time limit, and that's not the point in general. These ooimpiads fly in and take off their guano around,

Answer 2

Any person should be able to change diapers, plan invasions, butcher pigs, construct buildings, navigate ships, write sonnets, keep accounts, build walls, set bones, ease death, follow orders, give orders, cooperate, act independently, solve equations, analyze new problems, throwing manure, programming computers, cooking delicious food, fighting well, dying with dignity.
Specialization is for insects.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

Answer 3

bad option

In the middle of the 10th grade, I became interested in programming, but I didn’t have time to do it and I have almost no experience. Now (in August) I made a small list of universities where I want to enter, but I realized that it makes no sense to enter without Olympiads. So I’m thinking of preparing for the first stages of the Olympiads in a month, to score on school studies and the Unified State Examination, and then for another six months to prepare for the final stages.

It’s impossible, well-trained people go to the Olympiad, you won’t be able to study anything in a month, you will simply lose time and precious points on the exam. Preparation for the Olympiads is based on the experience that you do not have and 1 month is not enough to acquire it!

Answer 4

score on school studies and the exam

Something tells me that a person who scores 100 points in each of the disciplines will be higher in the ranking than the winner of the Olympiads with bad scores.
Olympiads will have weight in one case - when there are hundred-point applicants in the competition.

Answer 5

It makes no sense to do without the Olympics.

You won’t pass by points or you won’t pull on knowledge?

score on school studies and the exam

Bad approach. The Olympics are coming along. tasks, not the main ones.

Answer 6

Well, or choose something easier and cram the exam for the maximum score, well, read books on programming (such as self-study)

After that, you can immediately go to work at McDonald's.
Olympiads are usually attended by those who ALREADY have the maximum points in the Unified State Examination. Because their knowledge and erudition allows them to use them.
You don’t want to study subjects, and at the same time win at the Olympics. How?

Now (in August) I made a small list of universities where I want to go, but I realized that without Olympiads, it doesn’t even make sense to enter

The vast majority of people enter without olympiads. How you came to your conclusion is not clear.

So I’m thinking of preparing for the first stages of the Olympiads in a month, to score on school studies and the Unified State Examination

The workload at school, plus preparation for the Olympics, did not lie next to the workload at the institute, and even more so at work. Why do you need institutes and universities at all if you are not ready to spend so much time and effort on studying?