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Its basically impossible to speculate why multiple USA_O qualifiers get rejected but someone who has no idea what the AMC/never done any research gets accepted.
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Maybe because the USA_O qualifiers had advantages that the others don't that mostly come from knowing that these contests exist? Someone who goes to TJ or a similar magnet school has a greater advantage in these contests since their clubs are so much more established and there's just the environment where having multiple people on I_O teams in a single year isn't really a big deal, while I'm sure a lot of MIT applicants who have never heard of the AMC haven't taken it because their school just doesn't offer it.