Here is the ranked list of participants in the Invitational Round of
the 2008 NACLO. Congratulations to everyone who participated. Just
getting to this round is a very significant achievement.

Note that, according to the rules announced earlier, we used the score
in the Open Round as a tie breaker. That is why Anand Natarajan is
ranked fourth and Jae-Kyu Lee is ranked fifth, even though their
scores in the Invitational Round were the same.

We will be contacting the top students via email. The top 4 will be
invited to USA Team 1, while the next 4 will be on Team 2, pending
funding.  Alternates will also be contacted in the event some of the
top eight students are not able to participate on the US National
teams. The NACLO team or teams will represent the USA at the
International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO), to take place in Bulgaria,
August 4-9, 2008. The following website describes the venue for the
ILO: http://www.sunnybeach-bg.com/web/index.php?lang=en

Getting in the top 8 is truly amazing (top 1%) given that 763 students
participated in the first round.

Problem H was easiest (average score 75%). The hardest one was problem
J (35%). Here is the full list:

F 70% (max 10/10)
G 44% (max 10/10)
H 75% (max 10/10)
I 69% (max 14/15)
J 35% (max 19.5/20)
K 46% (max 15/15)
L 48% (max 16.5/20)


These are the top 20 students (rank, name, site, high school, state, score)


1. Guy Tabachnick	Columbia University	Hunter College High School	NY 87.5
2. Jeffrey Lim	Brandeis University	Arlington High School	MA 81.5
3. Josh Falk	Carnegie Mellon University	Shady Side Academy PA 76.5
4. Anand Natarajan	San Jose State University	The Harker School	CA 76

5. Jae-Kyu Lee	Online	Phillips Academy Andover	MA 76
6. Rebecca Jacobs	Online	Harvard-Westlake	CA 75.5
7. Hanzhi Zhu	Brandeis University	Shrewsbury High School	MA 75
8. Morris Alper	San Jose State University	Henry M. Gunn High School	CA 74.5

9. Nicolas Williamson	Cornell University	Ithaca High School	74
10. Reid Whitaker	University of Michigan	Pioneer	71
11. Catherine Sheard	Online	Hugh C Williams Senior High School	70
12. Benjamin Niedzielski	Online	Phillips Academy Andover	69.5

13. Andrew Peters	Online	Mayo High School	68.5 (tie break)
14. Junhua Pan	Brandeis University	Lexington High School	68.5 (tie break)
15. Kevin Lee	Online	Bergen County Academies	68.5
16. Alex Fandrianto	San Jose State University	The Harker School	68

17. Antal Spector-Zabusky	Cornell University	Lehman Alternative Community School	67
18. Anna Tchetchetkine	San Jose State University	Lynbrook High School	66 (tie break)
19. David Corwin	Brandeis University	Acton-Boxborough Regional High School	66 (tie break)
20. Thomas Kettig	Columbia University	Hunter College High School	66 (tie break)

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From 21th place on, tie breaks are not shown (the acronyms for the
same score appear in alphabetical order below).

rank 21-30

MK NY 65
RK ON 64
MN CA 64
JY WA 64
BY NJ 63.5
AK WA 62.5
DW IL 62.5
GL ON 62.5
AY OR 62
RC NJ 61.5

rank 31-40

SB MA 59.5
MW PA 59.5
BH VA 59.5
AS NY 59
CM VA 58
AA MI 57.5
MG MA 57
JB NC 56.5
MH MA 56.5
ArKr CA 56.5

rank 41-51

DM PA 56
DR MA 56
JS CA 56
RU WI 55
RZ NY 54.5
CT CA 54
SS MA 53.5
YX ON 53.5
CW ON 53
AR PA 53
SH MA 53

rank 52+

HK NY 52.5
BG PA 52
CN PA 51.5
AL NY 51.5
LC MA 51
lb PA 51
SY NJ 50.5
AlKr PA 50
ML WA 50
PK MA 49
JM NY 49
BZ PA 49
SM GA 49
CC NY 48.5
AL CA 48.5
PT PA 48
MH CA 47.5
KV PA 47.5
EH NC 47
AL VA 47
TH MI 47
JB PA 47
QN WA 46.5
CB NJ 46.5
KM PA 46.5
JZ BC 46
NJ ON 45.5
CC PA 45.5
EJ ON 45.5
AH NJ 45.5
SC NY 45
AS NJ 45
IP ON 44.5
MB PA 44.5
JaKe PA 44
NT PA 44
JM MI 44
JV MA 44
SH PA 44
ES NY 43
JaKu PA 43
AK NJ 43
EB IL 43
JB ON 42
CG MA 42
DC MD 41.5
LL ON 41.5
KK NJ 41.5
LZ CT 41
JR TN 41
DL IL 40.5
BS PA 40.5
EK NJ 40
AD PA 40
HD PA 39.5
CP PA 39
JK NJ 39
JL NY 37.5
SM PA 36.5
KA NY 35.5
AK CA 34.5
FD NY 33.5
JZ ON 32.5
SG CA 32
MM PA 31.5

Second round no-shows are not listed.