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Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure
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Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure
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Pennsylvania is about median in difficulty. See the cutoff map from last year.
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programjames1 wrote:
Pennsylvania is about median in difficulty. See the cutoff map from last year.

this data is skewed because generally bad states wouldn't post their scores.

Here, Ohio and PA are both shown to be slightly below average, but they both placed 14th and 18th out of 50 states and 6 territories.
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happymoose666 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure

hey yo whats ur name im in PA too
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Andyluo wrote:
this data is skewed because generally bad states wouldn't post their scores.

Here, Ohio and PA are both shown to be slightly below average, but they both placed 14th and 18th out of 50 states and 6 territories.

Cutoffs are different from top scorers though. I did MATHCOUNTS in two states, each of which typically ranked between 20th and 30th, and had cutoffs one or two points lower than Pennsylvanias. The difference between those states and Pennsylvania is the scores were much closer together.
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happymoose666 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure

hey yo whats ur name im in PA too

Is your name benjamin Lu
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BossLu99 wrote:
happymoose666 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure

hey yo whats ur name im in PA too

Is your name benjamin Lu

yes he is
Benorz the GOAT

btw I'm the norz viktor wang
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he got second
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viktorz :omighty:
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he got second

he got 1st written, 2nd cdr, so i'd say he got 1st
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the amount of orzness coming from this post is so high its dangerous
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bruh my california chapter is so hard I got 39 and was like 1 away from state qual :wallbash_red:
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@happymoose666 what grade are you in
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happymoose666 wrote:
he got second

he got 1st written, 2nd cdr, so i'd say he got 1st

wait are you Ethan qi
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ethan2011 wrote:
happymoose666 wrote:
he got second

he got 1st written, 2nd cdr, so i'd say he got 1st

wait are you Ethan qi

no
I don't live in pa
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Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure

r u Shawn Ruan?
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viktorz :omighty:

You mean you orz
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Pengu14 wrote:
viktorz :omighty:

You mean you orz

Off topic but I love your pfp :10:
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happymoose666 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure

r u Shawn Ruan?

no he isn't based off chapter score
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who is happy moose bro
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@Bosslu99 good luck at nats, you were really good in states.
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@Bosslu99 good luck at nats, you were really good in states.

Who are you???
I'm from springhouse
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I'm just a random 6th grader who went to states but did not make cdr :wallbash: .
My chapter is SUPER easy.
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happy moose are you John Xie, or Robert Zhou?
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happy moose are you John Xie, or Robert Zhou?

Pretty sure orangebear is John Xie, I know he got CDR (9th-10th) range
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ZMB038 wrote:
happy moose are you John Xie, or Robert Zhou?

Pretty sure orangebear is John Xie, I know he got CDR (9th-10th) range

Thanks math-lover1/vicktor wamg
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@Bosslu99 good luck at nats, you were really good in states.

thanks bro
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Hi everyone,
I just have a question. I live in PA and I sadly didn't make it to nationals this year. Is PA a competitive state? I'm new into mathcounts and not sure

I'd say the best 2-3 people are quite competitive but the competitiveness generally falls off fast for PA.
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Nice I’m from PA too and I also didn’t make nats :D

Afaik BossLu, orangebear, and MathLover are all cdr people
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happy moose are you John Xie, or Robert Zhou?

not Robert Zhou… :skull: \jk
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ZMB038 wrote:
happy moose are you John Xie, or Robert Zhou?

not Robert Zhou… :skull: \jk

Oh now I know who you are.
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happymoose666 wrote:
Is your name benjamin Lu
yes he is
Benorz the GOAT
why are you glazing this ben jit so hard
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Robert Zhou beat me in cdr chapter and then he beat me at cdr state :skull
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Robert Zhou beat me in cdr chapter and then he beat me at cdr state :skull

Tika Chaudhuri, Ben Lu, and Robert Zhou are all from the same chapter. Delaware County Chapter in PA is goated.
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trust in centre county chapter
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trust in centre county chapter

i can confirm that central will be pretty strong next year :maybe:
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I'd say the best 2-3 people are quite competitive but the competitiveness generally falls off fast for PA.

ouch that hurt
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LostRiptide wrote:

I'd say the best 2-3 people are quite competitive but the competitiveness generally falls off fast for PA.

ouch that hurt

(Math-lover1 got 7th so that's why he's saying that)

Viktorz
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