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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just on the olympiad insider website, [b]how is it possible for so many of their students to make AIME and even usamo[/b]? Is the competition world turning into pay to win? Of course, you can study yourself or with aops class, but it seems you are at a great disadvantage without a private tutor...

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https://www.olympiadinsider.com/tutoring[/quote]

Anyone who studies for long enough can make AIME. [/quote]

This statement is absolutely not true.

That's like saying anyone that practices enough can go play D1 college football on scholarship.
  (AIME qualifiers capped at 6000-7000/yr, D1 football scholarship players ~20,000)

Just like sports, you need to be
1) naturally gifted (or at least way above average)
2) have the support around you to guide your development
3) put in the time & effort[/quote]

This.  Let's be realistic.  At schools like Longfellow, there's a pretty intense math club that has over a hundred kids try out.  Many of those kids are taking outside math classes and doing other competitions.  They also likely have around 100 kids sit for the AMC10 tests.  Last year, only 3 kids qualified for AIME.  If it were that easy to tiger-parent your kid into qualifying for AIME, then Longfellow would have had a lot more than 3 qualifiers last year.

Kids taking the AMC tests are highly self selected.  Many of them put in a lot of time practicing, and many are well supported by their school math club and outside enrichment classes.  [b]Only around 5% of these kids move on to the AIME.[/b]  [/quote]

As a parent of a child deeply interested in math, I encourage any kid who is interested in math to try it out.

However, I also found many parents who are pushing kids because "they are too young to know if they are good at it, and only if they try they would find out".

My own experience is that many more kids would have made it to AIME if there was less parent involvement. At least two kids I know were turned off/burned out because they were pushed too much. A child told me "it was fun until my mom got involved".
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