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Oh, you mean TJ rejected the top 5% of the AMC8 in favor of these kids who were so awesome at math that they needed extra tutoring just to keep up with their cohort? You don't seem to understand how to formulate an argument.[/quote]

TJ didn't reject the top 5% of the AMC 8.  They rejected 1/4 of the kids who landed within the top 5% of the AMC 8 and presumably accepted the other 3/4.  That sounds about right to me.  If every FCPS middle school offered Longfellow levels of coaching and the AMC 8 to all honors students, there would be more top 5% honor roll students than there are TJ slots.  AMC 8 isn't nearly as big of a deal as AMC 10/AIME or Mathcounts.  It certainly shouldn't be the end all and be all of TJ admissions.  [/quote]

This is correct. The AMC 8 is not a difficult test; nothing compared to AMC 10, 12, and other high school contests. This is signified by the hundreds of students who obtain perfect scores (25/25) each year. Compare that with less than 10 or so obtaining perfect scores in the other above contests (some years almost nobody on AMC 12 or HMMT).
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I'm guessing that PP's kid is one of the ones who barely squeaked onto the AMC 8 honor roll, and PP is desperately hoping that it will be some sort of golden ticket to TJ.  Or PP's kid is one of the ones rejected from the AMC 8 honor roll.  PP seems desperate to make the AMC 8 into an elite test.  I know of a 9 year old who made AMC 8 honor roll last year.  It doesn't seem that impressive for a 13-14 year old to do the same thing.

TJ might care somewhat about AMC 8 scores, but only if they're accompanied by high AMC 10 scores and good Mathcounts performance.  An AMC 8 score in isolation is worth nothing.  [/quote]

Please read - "they rejected more than 100 of the 376 applicants with scores of 47 or higher on the math portion of the admissions test, which has a maximum score of 50. "  They rejected students who scored well on their math admissions test because they didn't meet some imaginary diversity criteria - it's obvious that some students in the resultant class would struggle with math.[/quote]

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