Tryouts vs Acceptance in Your School

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So I was just wondering about this statistic.

In my school about 150/1200 (1/8) of the students tried out).

Of those, 25 made the team.

Our state (NJ) allows a 18 member team at regionals and states instead of the usual 15.

But you did not come in as an alternate. Once you made the tryouts you had to compete for each event you wanted to take part in.

Do your schools use a similar setup?

How do the actual statistics vary?

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We have roughly 80 of 1900 join the team, with around 60 or so serious enough to actually go to a competition (we don't make cuts until state).
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We had around 20 out of about 1400 in a good year (1.4%). That usually got naturally whittled down to 15 by regionals.
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We have about 20 out of 900. There are no tryouts. For the invitationals, we split the team pretty evenly in half and then depending on how well people do, a varsity team is chosen for regionals. We also mix the teams between invites. Our regional lets us bring jv teams, too, and just last year they started giving out medals for the jv kids that earn them.
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[Div-B] We have about 45 students out of 750 (6%) that come out for Science Olympiad every year. We don't have tryouts at the middle school level. We try to let all the students compete throughout the season. We can send two 15-person teams to Regionals. For state, we send one 15-person team with sometimes up to 9 alternates who get to do the trial events and generally help out carrying stuff and helping the ones competing with their studying. It's kind of a reward for doing a good job in the season, but not being quite good enough for the top 15.
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Last year we had about 25 people grades 6-8 out of about 200 people (small school). We also had 6 people from 9th grade out of I don't know how many people. 15 people made the team and 2 alternates.
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For those of you who say no tryouts or no cuts until later on, how do you decide who competes each event at invites, and do you think it is fair to the people more deserving of the position when others get a chance?
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WhatScience? wrote:For those of you who say no tryouts or no cuts until later on, how do you decide who competes each event at invites, and do you think it is fair to the people more deserving of the position when others get a chance?
We don't have tryouts ever, we just have two teams for invites and the coaches decide by how well people did at said invites. (We go to 4, so we have time to switch out partners, try out other people in other events, etc.) People choose the events they want to do at the beginning of the year and if there are events that have no one/one person in it, people volunteer. How do you do tryouts? Do you have one person do a test or pick a partner?
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WhatScience? wrote:For those of you who say no tryouts or no cuts until later on, how do you decide who competes each event at invites, and do you think it is fair to the people more deserving of the position when others get a chance?
Early on, the students choose their favorite events and rank them, 1, 2, or 3. Since we get about 20 students and make 2 teams, everybody gets to do 4 or 5 events at the invites. We've never had more than 4 people pick the same event as their number one choice, so until now, everyone has always been able to do their first choice at invites.

Then you try to split the team evenly in half. When that happens, sometimes people don't get their second choice. That happened to one of my seniors this year. But I explained I wanted to try her in something else that tested at the same time and also give practice to the underclassmen so that when she's gone, there will be someone who has some experience in that event.

She was ok with that, since it was only one invite. Like I said above, we mix the teams between each invite. This helps to determine how to maximize the strengths of the team. And we're lucky to be in Michigan; this year we went to 3 invites.
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We usually have 2 teams of 15-18 kids and we take 4 tests (One for each of the 4 science topics) and they're more of placement tests.
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