VTRMC Results 2018

94 schools from 29 states took part in the 40th contest and there were 792 participants. The maximum possible score was 70. The leading scores were (if anybody has any objections about putting these leading scores on the WEB, please inform the Contest Director immediately!)

Score Name
Institution State Major/Grad
46 Johnson, Cody T Carnegie Mellon PA Math 19
43 Jiang, Liwei Univ WI Madison WI Stat 19
35 Kang, Benjamin G Thomas Jefferson VA HS
34 Liu, Ruoyuan Carnegie Mellon PA CS 20
33 Salgado, Dilhan H Carnegie Mellon PA CS 22
32 Shen, Dawei WUSL MO Math 22
32 Ardeishar, Adam Thomas Jefferson VA HS
31 Stoner, David W Harvard Univ MA Math 19
31 Sanguanmoo, Sivakorn Univ WI Madison WI Math 21
30 Ranis, Max P Yale CT Math 22
30 Heil, Samuel W WUSL MO Math 20
30 Byron, Chin Princeton Univ NJ Math 21
29 Nguyen, Khang V Liberty VA Math 19
28 Lin, Yuxin Notre Dame IN Math 21
28 Sacramento de Oliveira, Pedro Univ of Penn PA CS 21
28 Anderson, Grady M Brigham Young UT Math 22
25 Gong, Ting Notre Dame IN Math 22
25 Zimu, Xiang Carnegie Mellon PA Math 21
25 Wang, Jianming Carnegie Mellon PA Math 20
25 Shi, Wenze Carnegie Mellon PA Math 20
24 Sun, William B Yale CT Phys 22
24 Aleskerov, Ramil Stonybrook NY Math/Phys 20
24 Tong, Ruiting Univ WI Madison WI Stat 21
23 Weaver, Austin J Purdue Univ IN Math/CS 21
23 Xu, Annie Univ of Michigan MI Math 21

The score distribution was
Score Range Number of Contestants
43 to 46 2
31 to 35 7
28 to 30 7
21 to 25 23
17 to 20 46
11 to 15 47
6 to 10 135
1 to 5 92
0 432

For more details, see all the scores ranked

The order of difficulty of the problems as indicated by the scores, starting with the hardest, was 5,2,7,6,1,4,3.

As usual, several students failed to put their registration number on their solutions. Some of the solutions we could not assign to a student, in other cases we made a guess (so it is possible a students got points he/she never actually got). Also, some registration forms weren't filled out.

I'm grateful for help from Edgar Saenz, Steve Galinaitis, Sohei Yasuda, Jeffrey Truman and Leonardo Mihalcea.

I would like to thank all the schools who took part, and I hope you will all take part again next year. I also hope that many schools who did not take part this year will take part next year. Watch these WEB pages; even if you do not get an invitation, we will still be delighted for you to take part provided you fill in the registration forms before the closing date for entries.

The most likely date for the contest next year is Saturday, October 26 2019. Occasionally announcements about the competition will be posted in the Sci.Math newsgroup.