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[quote=Anonymous][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]
It really isn't.  One of the reasons it's so easy to make honor roll is that a lot of the top kids stop bothering with AMC 8 as soon as they reach AIME levels.  My kid made the honor roll in early elementary, but as soon as he started AIME qualifying on the AMC 10 in 6th grade, he didn't see the point of continuing to do the AMC 8.  I know a lot of other top kids in the same boat.  [/quote]

This is ridiculous.

It's not "easy". Your brilliant kid qualified for the AIME in 6th. Congrats!
You know who didn't qualify? Most of the 2000 TJ students in 9th-12th!
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That's been true since TJ was created.[/quote]

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