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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AMC8 in the 1980s was much easier, so students will get high scores if these are used as practice tests.  The honor rolls from recent years are available on the MAA website if people want to get the count from northern Virginia.  It is much higher than 50.[/quote]

I did and it's lower.[/quote]

Then you did it badly.  I pulled in the csv file from 2022.  There were 105 kids total from VA listed on the top 1% and top 5% honor rolls.  [/quote]
Generally, 10+ VA elementary school kids make it onto at least the top 5% honor roll.  It's really not that special.  [/quote]

I know! It's like maybe 0.0001% of the MS population so not all that special. :/[/quote]

There's a huge gulf between "pin the certificate on the wall and brag to other parents/coworkers" type of special and "tj should auto-admit these kids" kind of special.  It's not the latter, no matter how much you want it to be.  Over 100 VA kids make it on the AMC 8 honor rolls each year.  This just shows that any kids who are reasonably strong in math who also either attend RSM or AoPS classes or have a strong middle school math competition program can make the honor roll for AMC 8.

Only 10-20 middle schoolers in VA qualify for AIME.  Only 4 qualify for mathcounts nationals.  Somewhere between 0-2 kids make USAJMO.  You could make an argument that these kids deserve to have the red carpet rolled out by TJ.  You can't plausibly make the same argument for all 100+ of the AMC 8 honor roll kids.  [/quote]

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