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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean when you say top students? All As or something else.[/quote]

Someone posted on here there were rejections of kids who qualified for USAJMO in 7th grade.  This is a contest that takes around the top 100 math students in the country.  And that is among 10th graders and below.
7th or 8th grader to make this in Virginia is rare, but they couldn't find room in a class of 500.  They also reject5 winners of MathCounts, Science Olympiad, and other contests.
Really anyone who qualifies for the earlier round AIME should be accepted.[/quote]

Why? What if they wrote "I don't want to go to TJ" for their essay? Or "I want to go to TJ because I'm better than everyone else and if you send me to my base school I'll be bored to tears"?

If you create metrics that deliver automatic acceptances, you will see an insane rush by parents to set their relatively workaday kids up to conform to that metric regardless of the damage done to their child's development. This, more than anything else, is why opaque admissions procedures are an absolute necessity.[/quote]

It might be possible to push a borderline kid to qualify for AIME, it is unlikely.  It is not possible for USAJMO.
To qualify for AIME a student would have to be able to do 15 of these questions in 75 minutes.
https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AMC_10A_Problems
Possible but unlikely that training would change these results for mediocre students.  Prepping for the current essay is more likely to get admission.
USAJMO would probably need half of these questions, in three hours
https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2024_AIME_I_Problems
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