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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't Longfellow sent only 2 individuals from Chapter to State this year? I don't think their bench is so deep that we'd have to worry about the 13th.
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True.  No team in the area has such a deep bench that the #13 kid would have a legitimate shot at making state or nationals.  I don't know what the numbers are this year, but last year, [b]Longfellow had 8 kids qualify for AIME out of nearly 100 taking the AMC10, [/b]and likely at least half of those barely qualified.  The majority of the 100 kids who took AMC 10 are the types in AoPS/RSM/Curie/Chinese School math classes who despite all of the training fell short.  While I'm sure that #13 and on would have enjoyed competing, it's not like Mathcounts is excluding deeply talented kids.  [/quote]
Wondering how you know this, is this still public info, or is it no longer provided by MAA?

I didn't know that Longfellow gives the AMC 10 to kids; I thought they all have to take it somewhere else outside of their school. I wonder how many other middle schools in FCPS do this; probably very few.[/quote]

I think there are only a few schools that offer the AMC exams, whether they by 8, 10, or 12. I would guess that most of the kids are taking them at private locations. I know that is what we did but we have a 6th grader.

8 kids out of 100 is pretty close to what you would expect statistically, isn’t the AIME qualification just under the top 10% of kids taking the AMC 10? And the test is designed for kids in 10th grade so 8 kids in MS earning their way into the AIME is pretty good. I know that a lot of those kids are ahead in math classes but I don’t think the AMC 10 is written for kids who have completed Geometry at this point. Not to mention, the kids scoring high on the AMC 10 are probably all kids who have been taking math competition classes, to include the 9th and 10th graders, who will have had additional time to prepare. So no, I wouldn’t expect a large number of 8th graders to be taking the AIME.

The people who post on this forum have a warped sense of what kids strong in math look like. DS is planning on taking the AMC 10 next year as a 7th grader, he made the regular honor roll on the AMC8 this year and wants to test himself. We care that he is interested in challenging himself and would be pretty thrilled if he lands close to the AIME cut off. [/quote]

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