Mathcounts Chapter scores
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Anonymous
| Does anyone know the individual scores that Mathcounts competitors need in order to advance from local DMV chapters to Maryland State? (It varies by chapter.) |
Anonymous
| There is no specific score. You have to be in the top 2 of the chapter or a member of the winning team, with some chapters sending even more students depending on how many schools are competing. For example, with 45 schools, they might take top four teams plus the next eight students not on those 4 teams. |
Anonymous
I know, which is why I asked for empirical data for local chapters. |
Anonymous
It's probably better to ask this in the MCPS forum, as most folks here are from VA. |
Anonymous
| What scores to VA chapters see advancing to State? |
Anonymous
Fairfax and NoVA chapters are extremely competitive. Likely, 40+ in Fairfax, and probably even higher in NoVA, due to high powered mathcounts teams in schools such as Longfellow and Cooper. If I had to guess for NoVA, it'd probably be 42+, so essentially near perfect. |
Anonymous
What are the boundaries of the Fairfax and NoVa chapters? Longfellow and Cooper are in Fairfax County, so where is Fairfax chapter? |
Anonymous
| My kid scored a 38 in the much less competitive Bull Run chapter and didn't make top 10 a few years ago. The average at that time was a 31. I agree with the guess of a score of 40+ needed. |
Anonymous
Was top 10 the limit on qualifying State? In most chapters, about 20-25% of the students at chapter go to state (including team members of leading teams, some of whom have lower scores than all the leading individuals who qualify for State). So more than top 10 go to State from many chapters, such as urban/suburban chapters that get well over 100 students. |
Anonymous
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NoVa chapter includes Longfellow, Cooper, ...
Fairfax chapter includes Carson, Frost, Rocky Run, ... Both chapters have well above 100 students to compete. They give out a top 25% honorable mention list after chapter competition ends. This year, only 12 kids from each chapter(two winning teams + top 4 individuals not on the two winning teams) advance to the Virginia state. (Last year, only 6 kids could advance from NoVa chapter, which has always been the most competitive chapter.) Top 4 individuals of the state advance to the MathCounts National as the state team. Previous two years, Virginia Team ranked top 13 or 14 nationally. |
Anonymous
Ask your school team coach from last year. |
Anonymous
There's usually a published list of winners each year. Is there one for the 3 NOVA chapters this year? |
Anonymous
I don't think there's one official published list across the 3 chapters. A winner list does exist for each chapter, which can only be shared with the team coaches and parents within the chapter, from what I've heard. |
Anonymous
Wow. MD has 7 chapters and invites 200 students to State. Half are top teams, and half are top individuals not form those top teams. (That's 20%-25% of Chapter participants). Potomac Chapter (MoCo + PG, representing 2M people, about one-third of MD's population) sends ~6 teams plus more individuals. I suppose that is about double the population of each of the 3 northern Virginia chapters together. (Google says "northern Virginia" has 3M people.) |
Anonymous
They didn't keep track. |