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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How competitive are the kids near the top? What level are those kids on?[/quote]

I don't have objective measures, but from what I've heard, they're dazzling, in a great way.  If DC qualifies and can join the team it should be a pretty special experience.[/quote]

Are they qualifying for AIME/USAJMO/MathCounts Nationals?[/quote]

Yes for all three competitions. But the current lottery selected 6th and 7th grades have less of these type of kids due to lottery. So it won't be that competitive next year. Even for the non-top ones, it is still some valuable experience to be exposed every week to different kind of math competition questions with a great cohort of peers. [/quote]

Before the lottery, typically a dozen non-eighth graders made the varsity team. This year there are only five. So yes, it's a little less competitive but the the score needed to get into varsity was the same as previous years on the tryout..[/quote]
Were there any non-eighth graders this year who made it to chapter round?[/quote]

Ms Manchester limited participation in mathcounts to 8th grade. I think it was because most hadn't been able to participate the previous years because of the pandemic. The few 6th and 7th graders that might've been able to do it didn't get that chance. [/quote]

This makes no sense.

A school can send up to 12 kids, and Ms. M usually sends the top 12 kids from the varsity team. If a kid is in the varsity team, and in the top 12, they get to go. She doesn't hold back kids because they have not participated before; by that logic, no kid will ever get to participate.

The other poster above said there are only five sixth/seventh graders in the varsity team this year. Are you saying some of them were in the top 12, and were prevented from participating in the chapter round?

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Of course it makes sense. Eighth graders were prioritized because they haven’t had a chance in prior years due to the pandemic and this is their last year of middle school.[/quote]

MathCounts has not canceled any chapter contests, but they ran them online the last two years.
The top 12 only started in 2022, there could be 15 in 2021, and before that it was a top 10.[/quote]

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