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Is this qualifier your kid?  If not, how do you know what classes the kid has taken?  It's not like people make a point of advertising every single AoPS course they've taken.  Anyway, you just did prove the point that the kid isn't getting to nationals through school math + coaching.  They're taking several AoPS classes to fill in the gaps.

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I've spoken to parents of several of the students who did well at states, and even know the individual scoresheets of some of them.  None are my kids.[/quote]

Are you a mathcounts coach?  If not, how on earth are you seeing the kids' scoresheets?  Also, you're admitting that you have no idea whatsoever as to what classes the kids are taking outside of school.  It's not like parents are advertising such things, and it's not like they're always completely honest.  Considering that the vast majority of the NoVa area kids competing at State Mathcounts are Asian, it's nigh guaranteed that they're taking outside classes.  
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Alcumus and MathCounts trainer cover a lot.[/quote]
Kids who can get disjointed pieces of math through Alcumus and Mathcounts trainer and then master all of the content (which spans far beyond school Geometry and Algebra II) by reading the solutions are [b]far[/b] from the norm.  If such a kid even exists, the kid is also not being served well at all by this approach.  If they had real classes and didn't have to teach themselves in a very ad hoc way, the kids who "almost made nats" would be making nats countdown round instead.  [/quote]

It's not even clear this kid did those things.  Another student who ranked higher did do the alcumus.  Here is far from the norm.  Someone who was within a few points of qualifying for nationals from Virginia scored below 30 on the school round, just doing lots of work after the chapter contest.[/quote]

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