2016 Putnam Mathematical Competition Results

The Math and Computer Science Department received the 2016 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition results. Ashland University had 1 student receive a non-zero score. Congratulations, Grace McCourt, who scored an 11. Paul Pernici (2014) still holds the record for the highest score for an AU student with 18 points.

A total of 4,164 students from 568 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the competition this year. Of these 4,164 participants, 1901 received scores of 0, 1,065 received scores between 1 and 10 and 97 received scores of 11. Thus, Grace, did better than 71.2% of students taking the exam and at least as as as 73.6% of students taking the exam. Andrew Rowe (2006) still holds the record for the highest percentile rank, doing better than 76.2% of students taking the exam and at least as well as 82.7% of students taking the exam.

The year's top 5 teams were: 1. Carnegie Mellon, 2. Princeton, 3. Harvard, 4. MIT and 5. Stanford. Thank you to all of you who participated in this year's exam, and I hope those of you who were not declared ineligible upon graduation in May will consider participating again, next year.