Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 11:41     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
There were no "wide accusations of anti-Asian" bias. Just people being snarky.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 11:41     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ This report is from last year, but it gives an idea of rarity.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/39692a4

Last year at Longfellow, 3 kids qualified for AIME, 9 kids made AMC 10 achievement roll, 8 kids made AMC 8 DHR, and 36 made AMC 8 HR.


Thanks for the link. A few questions:

1) What is a Team Member? The AMCs are not a team competition so I don’t know what an AMC 8 or 10 Team member is. More curious than anything.

2) How many of those kids were 8th graders or 7th graders? Just because I am curious. I doubt that you know that.

3) Why are kids listed on both the HR and DHR? That is kind of weird. Really 28 kids made HR because they counted the DHR kids in with the HR, they double counted them.

Without knowing how many kids took the test at Longfellow, it is hard to know if those kids really stand out because there were a lot more that took it and did not earn HR or DHR. If that list is pretty much everyone who took then what I think holds true, most the kids who take the test at a school like Longfellow will earn HR or DHR, which is commendable but will likely have less impact on a TJ application.

Earning HR and DHR on the AMCs is awesome, especially if you are taking them early. But I suspect that many of the TJ applicants from the major feeders will have similar scores.


1. Each school or test center gets a team score that is the sum of the top 3 scorers. Since 4 kids are listed, the school probably took both AMC 10A and AMC 10B, with some kids making top 3 on both, and some kids only making it on one or the other.

2 and 3. No clue.
I wouldn't be surprised if around 100 kids at Longfellow take the test. I also wouldn't be surprised if every TJ feeder with a strong math competition team has similar results. To me, AMC 8 HR wouldn't stand out in a TJ application on its own. If it's supported by a narrative of how the kid worked hard to achieve a goal of making HR or how passionate the kid is about math, it could make sense in an essay. If the kid is not at a higher SES AAP center, then AMC 8 HR might stand out a little bit.


Last year or a couple of years before when they stopped publishing names, they were widely accused of anti-Asian bias; however, they responded by saying that they felt that it was really their privacy disclosures /consent (or lack thereof) that prevented them from posting names.

I noticed that this year's registration form contained updated language that made me think that they were seeking consent to publishing names.

Does anyone with actual knowledge have any info whether they'll resume posting honor rolls?


I doubt MAA is active on DCUM.

What we know is that MAA moved from old functional website/app to a new, less functional one, in 2022.

2 years later, there is a signof improvement as they started directly telling students their own scores for the first time ever.

They've also done a lot of work digitizing the test itself, near-instant scoring, and randomizing question orders.

They also redesigned the test content.

So, they certainly are doing a lot of work to modernize things according to their goals.

Without public honor rolls or a score certification service, (and with the huge cheating scandals of recent years) the contests have no credibility beyond personal satisfaction.

But initial signals do suggest they they are working to resolve these issues.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 11:27     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ This report is from last year, but it gives an idea of rarity.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/39692a4

Last year at Longfellow, 3 kids qualified for AIME, 9 kids made AMC 10 achievement roll, 8 kids made AMC 8 DHR, and 36 made AMC 8 HR.


Thanks for the link. A few questions:

1) What is a Team Member? The AMCs are not a team competition so I don’t know what an AMC 8 or 10 Team member is. More curious than anything.

2) How many of those kids were 8th graders or 7th graders? Just because I am curious. I doubt that you know that.

3) Why are kids listed on both the HR and DHR? That is kind of weird. Really 28 kids made HR because they counted the DHR kids in with the HR, they double counted them.

Without knowing how many kids took the test at Longfellow, it is hard to know if those kids really stand out because there were a lot more that took it and did not earn HR or DHR. If that list is pretty much everyone who took then what I think holds true, most the kids who take the test at a school like Longfellow will earn HR or DHR, which is commendable but will likely have less impact on a TJ application.

Earning HR and DHR on the AMCs is awesome, especially if you are taking them early. But I suspect that many of the TJ applicants from the major feeders will have similar scores.


1. Each school or test center gets a team score that is the sum of the top 3 scorers. Since 4 kids are listed, the school probably took both AMC 10A and AMC 10B, with some kids making top 3 on both, and some kids only making it on one or the other.

2 and 3. No clue.
I wouldn't be surprised if around 100 kids at Longfellow take the test. I also wouldn't be surprised if every TJ feeder with a strong math competition team has similar results. To me, AMC 8 HR wouldn't stand out in a TJ application on its own. If it's supported by a narrative of how the kid worked hard to achieve a goal of making HR or how passionate the kid is about math, it could make sense in an essay. If the kid is not at a higher SES AAP center, then AMC 8 HR might stand out a little bit.


Last year or a couple of years before when they stopped publishing names, they were widely accused of anti-Asian bias; however, they responded by saying that they felt that it was really their privacy disclosures /consent (or lack thereof) that prevented them from posting names.

I noticed that this year's registration form contained updated language that made me think that they were seeking consent to publishing names.

Does anyone with actual knowledge have any info whether they'll resume posting honor rolls?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 11:22     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
We got nothing yet except the initial scores.


Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did any students receive the award from MAA yet?



Anonymous wrote:2025 AMC8 results are out:
Honor Roll: 19
Top 2.5%: 21
Distinguished Honor Roll: 23


Your proctor sends those.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2025 21:56     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ This report is from last year, but it gives an idea of rarity.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/39692a4

Last year at Longfellow, 3 kids qualified for AIME, 9 kids made AMC 10 achievement roll, 8 kids made AMC 8 DHR, and 36 made AMC 8 HR.


Thanks for the link. A few questions:

1) What is a Team Member? The AMCs are not a team competition so I don’t know what an AMC 8 or 10 Team member is. More curious than anything.

2) How many of those kids were 8th graders or 7th graders? Just because I am curious. I doubt that you know that.

3) Why are kids listed on both the HR and DHR? That is kind of weird. Really 28 kids made HR because they counted the DHR kids in with the HR, they double counted them.

Without knowing how many kids took the test at Longfellow, it is hard to know if those kids really stand out because there were a lot more that took it and did not earn HR or DHR. If that list is pretty much everyone who took then what I think holds true, most the kids who take the test at a school like Longfellow will earn HR or DHR, which is commendable but will likely have less impact on a TJ application.

Earning HR and DHR on the AMCs is awesome, especially if you are taking them early. But I suspect that many of the TJ applicants from the major feeders will have similar scores.


1. Each school or test center gets a team score that is the sum of the top 3 scorers. Since 4 kids are listed, the school probably took both AMC 10A and AMC 10B, with some kids making top 3 on both, and some kids only making it on one or the other.

2 and 3. No clue.
I wouldn't be surprised if around 100 kids at Longfellow take the test. I also wouldn't be surprised if every TJ feeder with a strong math competition team has similar results. To me, AMC 8 HR wouldn't stand out in a TJ application on its own. If it's supported by a narrative of how the kid worked hard to achieve a goal of making HR or how passionate the kid is about math, it could make sense in an essay. If the kid is not at a higher SES AAP center, then AMC 8 HR might stand out a little bit.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2025 21:17     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:^ This report is from last year, but it gives an idea of rarity.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/39692a4

Last year at Longfellow, 3 kids qualified for AIME, 9 kids made AMC 10 achievement roll, 8 kids made AMC 8 DHR, and 36 made AMC 8 HR.


Thanks for the link. A few questions:

1) What is a Team Member? The AMCs are not a team competition so I don’t know what an AMC 8 or 10 Team member is. More curious than anything.

2) How many of those kids were 8th graders or 7th graders? Just because I am curious. I doubt that you know that.

3) Why are kids listed on both the HR and DHR? That is kind of weird. Really 28 kids made HR because they counted the DHR kids in with the HR, they double counted them.

Without knowing how many kids took the test at Longfellow, it is hard to know if those kids really stand out because there were a lot more that took it and did not earn HR or DHR. If that list is pretty much everyone who took then what I think holds true, most the kids who take the test at a school like Longfellow will earn HR or DHR, which is commendable but will likely have less impact on a TJ application.

Earning HR and DHR on the AMCs is awesome, especially if you are taking them early. But I suspect that many of the TJ applicants from the major feeders will have similar scores.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2025 21:00     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
^ This report is from last year, but it gives an idea of rarity.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/39692a4

Last year at Longfellow, 3 kids qualified for AIME, 9 kids made AMC 10 achievement roll, 8 kids made AMC 8 DHR, and 36 made AMC 8 HR.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2025 18:07     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:Is honor roll worth mentioning on the TJ application? DS does these tests for fun but he ended up scoring high enough for honor roll. I don’t know anything about this test and if it’s something worth putting on the application nxt year.


Congrats, honor roll is not easy to earn. I don’t know that there is a place for it on the TJ application. I am sure it could be worked into the essays somehow.

I would guess that many of the students who apply out of Cooper, Longfellow, and Carson will have taken the AMC 8 and a decent number of those will have achieved Honors or Distinguished Honors. I could be wrong but I am not sure it would stand out that much simply because I would expect that the kid interested in TJ should score high on these tests. DS earned HR as a 6th grader and DHR as a 7th grader. Most of the kids he knows in Mathcounts have similar scores.

It is impressive because it is a small percentage of the kids who take the test but it is also expected that the kids who apply to a school like TJ would be kids who score high on these type of tests. It is kind of like expecting kids who apply to MIT to be kids who score high on the AMC 12 and AIME, and most likely make the USAMO.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2025 14:01     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Is honor roll worth mentioning on the TJ application? DS does these tests for fun but he ended up scoring high enough for honor roll. I don’t know anything about this test and if it’s something worth putting on the application nxt year.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2025 18:41     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
MAA now posts student's scores in your profile:

https://maa.edvistas.com/datamate/studentlogin.aspx

2025 AMC 8 and AIME are there now
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 20:14     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
By all means, push her. Then watch Race to Nowhere and set up an appointment with a therapist.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 07:26     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:Did any students receive the award from MAA yet?



Anonymous wrote:2025 AMC8 results are out:
Honor Roll: 19
Top 2.5%: 21
Distinguished Honor Roll: 23


Your proctor sends those.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2025 22:46     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Did any students receive the award from MAA yet?



Anonymous wrote:2025 AMC8 results are out:
Honor Roll: 19
Top 2.5%: 21
Distinguished Honor Roll: 23
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 21:32     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
2025 AMC8 results are out:
Honor Roll: 19
Top 2.5%: 21
Distinguished Honor Roll: 23
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 12:42     Subject: When do AMC 8 results come out? Should I push my dd to do better next year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Awards have been released.


So what was the cutoff for HR and DHR?


The AMC 8 Honor Roll and Distinguished Honor Roll have not been released. There is nothing on the MAA website and none of the sites that discuss the scores have anything listed. The AOPS Community board would have the scores levels posted if they were out.

The AMC 10 and 12 cut offs have been released. I am not sure why those are release as quickly as they are and the AMC 8 takes so long but it is what it is.