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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone here seems to seriously underestimate how hard it is to qualify for USA(J)MO. 99.9% of high school seniors have never qualified qualify for USA(J)MO (actually, more like 99.99%). No one qualifies in middle school without a concerted effort and extreme acceleration, be that in school or out of it.[/quote]

Yup. School acceleration by itself isn't going to do it because the school curriculum just isn't geared towards this level of competition. My kid is friends with one of the 4 mathcounts kids in our state who went to nationals. That kid is doing AoPS years beyond what they are covering in their math class at school, even though they are grade skipped in math at school. Attending math class at school is just a formality for these kids. And in addition to studying more advanced math on their own, they are specifically working on speed in competition style problems. That kid is passionate about it too. My kid is also grade skipped in math by a couple of years, but there is no way she could compete at that level without competition-specific training on top of acceleration. [/quote]

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