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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The additional twist is that there are dozens of international students each year winning gold medals at IMO, IphO etc. But many of those students come from small countries where it's much easier to qualify. Not saying they are not brilliant or anything, but it's about 50-100 times harder to qualify for the US team than, say, Austrian.[/quote] 50-100? If that was true, the US TST would be way harder than the IMO, which it isn't. Medaling at the IMO from a random country is not significantly easier than making the US IMO team.[/quote]

yes, it is. you are competing with 50-100 times fewer kids to get there.[/quote]

US TST is definitely harder than IMO. Problems 1 and 4 in IMO (at least nowadays) are entirely designed for a high number of solves. The rest are harder. My kid is friends with a number of kids from IMO team members from other countries (Netherlands, Bolivia, India etc.) and their TST equivalents are quite a bit easier. China TST is the hardest of the IMO qualifying tests. Half of this year's US IMO team are 10th-11th graders and this year's TST group has a tone of 10th-11th graders and they are lit.[/quote]

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