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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"National Honor Roll Medal:  The top 10% of all participants in the nation will receive 'National Honor Roll' medals. "

Not standout for TJ.
AMC 8/10 Honor Roll or Mathcounts Chapter/State would be more TJ level.

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This is ridiculous, are you saying 500 students at TJ are all AMC8/10 honor roll in middle school?[/quote]

They might not be on the honor roll because they didn’t take it but I would think that every kid at TJ should be on the honor roll if they took the exam. DS is in 6th grade and took a practice exam for the AMC 8. He scored 18 out of 25 on it. I have no idea how he will do on the exam when he takes it in a few weeks but I would not be surprised if he does well on it. He is normally in the 95th or 99th percentile of the kids participating in math competitions. The kids who want to go to TJ because they love STEM are likely to be the kids who do well on things like the AMC8. That is kind of who the school is meant to serve.
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Getting honor roll for AMC8 is very hard - there's fewer than 3000 in the entire country. There's no way all 500 kids in NOVA are "good" enough to get it. I believe there are about 20 NOVA kids each year getting on the AMC8 honor roll.[/quote]

I love my DS and I think he is pretty smart but he is a 6th grader whose score on his first practice test was 1 question away from the honor roll for the test that he took. While I get that is a practice test at home, it does not make me think that the AMC 8 is super challenging for kids who enjoy math and have been taking math competitions for a while. I would not think of enrolling him in the AMC 10 but I know that there are parents of kids his age who do just that. Some of those parents have posted here. Maybe if he does well enough on the AMC 8 this year we will try the AMC 10 next year.

Take a look at the break down of who is taking tests like the Noetic and the like, you will see certain states are well over represented in the honor roll. So yes, I can see that there would be a large number of kids in the NoVA area taking the AMC 8 in ES and earning honor roll.

I don’t think it should be a stretch for kids applying to TJ be able to score high enough to earn honor roll on the AMC 8, especially if they were to take it in 8th grade. [b]If your kid is not able to score on the honor roll on the AMC 8 as an 8th grader, then TJ might not be the best fit.[/b] [/quote]

It’s getting even more ridiculous.

Ok, we get it, your kid is a genius, although I’m guessing you’re not even in remotely in the vicinity of TJ.

Holding math competitions or AIME as the ultimate STEM achievement a student can attain is misguided. People can have many different interests and skills, besides doing hard problems on a time limit.[/quote]

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