Putnam 2008 Scores

The results are in.

Once again, we had a near record number of students (nine) take the Putnam Exam at the end of the Fall semester.

Congratulations to all nine for taking a significant chunk of time out of their day shortly before finals to cogitate deeply on math problems.

This year all of our students scored at least the mode (mode = 0 this year). There were 3627 contestants who took the exam this time, and a score of 0 earned a rank of 2771.5.

Two of our students beat the mode. One of them scored the median (median = 1 this year), joining only 172 other contestants to accomplish this feat. These students earned a rank of 1829. (An improvement of over 940 places above the mode.)

The other student beat both the median and the mode to rank 1660.5 along with 163 other contestants. (A further improvement of over 165 places above the median.)

Yea!