Results of the NAC

In order to increase transparency, we are publishing the scores and ranks of students that took part in the National Astronomy Competition. We asked for students consent when publishing the scores. Note that anyone can take part in the National Astronomy Competition but only U.S. citizens and residents can represent U.S. at the International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad.

For the 2021/2022:

This year 73 students took the National Astronomy Competition. The mean was 79 points. Only U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents can represent US at the International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad.

For the 2020/2021:

95 students took part in the NAC. We again administered the exam online with the help of many volunteers. The mean score was a 55.02 out of 180 with a standard deviation of 29.99, and the median was 54.50. Below are the full results and histogram.

Rank	Name	Score
1	Leo Yao	160.5
2	William Huang	138.5
3	Alexander Hu	119.5
4	Erez Israeli Miller	117.5
5	George Cristian Ardeleanu	114.5
6	Adithya Balachandran	113.5
7	Abhay Narasimha Bestrapalli	96.5
7	Harsh Deep	96.5
9	Jared Machtinger	93.5
10	Orion Foo	92
11	Răzvan Gabriel Marcu	90
12	Cayuss Mihaitoaia	89.5
13	Aarush Gupta	87.5
14	Joshua Jones	85.25
15	Adrian Marian Tiripa	83.5
16	Geoffrey Wu	81.5
17	Justin Chen	81
18	Albert Zhang	80.5
19	David-Corneliu Turturean	80
20	Victor-Ioan Dumbravă	77
21	Chengkai Yu	76.5
22	Zachary Zitzewitz	75
22	David Zhang	75
24	Sanjit Kobla	72
25	Samvit Das	70.5
26	Flavia Pascal	67.5
26	Yang Jie Lin Hu	67.5
28	Ivan Ge	67
29	Rohan Bhowmik	66
30	Michelle Park	65.5
30	Jonathan Pei	65.5
32	Isaac Noel	64.5
33	Kelli Van Brunt	64
34	Daria Teodora Hărăbor	62
35	VLADIMIR GEORGE NECULA	61
35	Arjun Patel	61
35	Leonard Bian	61
38	Amir Akbar	60
39	Răzvan Mihail Ciurescu	59
40	Alexandru Apostol	57.5
40	Richard Xu	57.5
42	Momoiu Alexandru	57
43	Krithi Koodli	56
43	Sreyas Adiraju	56
43	Jihao YU	56
46	Justin Shan	55.75
47	Dragomir Andrei-Darius	55.5
48	Venkat Ranjan	54.5
49	Shion Murakawa	53
50	Chris Jung	52
51	Austin Chen	49.5
52	Adhitya Chandra	49
52	Leon Ma	49
54	Abrar Sheikh	48
54	Mihnea Butiurca	48
54	Christopher Tong	48
57	Arvyn De	47.5
57	Adrian D’Souza	47.5
59	Andrew Liu	44.5
60	Rishauv Kar-Roy	43.5
61	Andrew Yuan	42
62	Hyunwoo Park	40
62	Titus Tsai	40
64	Pratyoy Biswas	39
65	Ayush Nayak	38.5
66	Konstantinos Maliaris	37
67	Raghav Sriram	36
68	Theodore Hill	35
68	Paul Hamrick	35
70	Sidhant Chaliha	33.5
70	Archit Kalra	33.5
72	Sean Fei	32.5
73	Liyuan Liu	32
74	Alina Yang	28
74	Jerry Yuan	28
76	Andreea Goia	27
76	Logan Reich	27
78	Shaurya Jain	26.5
79	Austin Guo	25.5
80	Shrithan Sandadi	25
81	Harish Krishnakumar	24
82	Chris John	23.5
83	Andrew Li	23
84	Asher Jiang	18
85	Megan Waters	16.5
85	Cindy wang	16.5
87	Shardool Deshpande	15
87	Sritaran Bondada	15
89	Brijesh Molala	14.5
90	Shohom Chakraborty	14
90	Vadim Bernshteyn	14
92	Andra Ariciu	13.5
92	Anirudh Bharadwaj	13.5
94	Shreya Singh	12
95	Ashika Srivastava	8.5

For the 2019/2020:

In total 72 students took part in the National Astronomy Competition. This year we had the exam online, split into 2 sessions. Here are the official scores and histogram distribution.

Rank	Name	School	Score
1	Leo Yao	West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North	139.95
2	April Cheng	Canyon Crest Academy	115.5
3	William Huang	Lynbrook High School	94.05
4	Sean Chen	Canyon Crest Academy	89.65
5	Max Tan	Phillips Exeter Academy	84.5
6	Gopal K. Goel	Krishna Homeschool	83.7
7	Jinghuai Yao	St.Stephen’s Episcopal School	82.95
8	William Li	King High School	81
9	Adithya Balachandran	High Technology High School	80.35
10	Shion Murakawa	North Hollywood High School	78.45
11	Jupiter Ding	State College Area High School	77.975
12	Jared Machtinger	Adlai E. Stevenson High School	77.55
13	Ryan Raikman	Sharon High School	66.05
14	Richard Xu	Clear Lake High School	65.4
15	Abhay Bestrapalli	Freedom international school	62.25
16	Kelli Van Brunt	Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School	61.85
17	Shaurya Jain	Evergreen Valley High School	58.05
18	Evan Zhang	Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology	55.45
19	Joshua Jones	Langley High School	53.5
21	Abrar Sheikh	Poolesville HS	52
22	Andrew Liu	Adlai E. Stevenson High School	50.225
23	Viraj Jayam	The Wheatley School	49.95
25	Erez Israeli Miller	Bergen County Academies	46.75
26	Arjun Patel	Troy High School	45.95
27	Sunay Joshi	Bergen County Academies	44.5
28	Yang Jie Lin Hu	Princeton International School of Math and Science	42.85
30	Lixin Zheng	King High School	42.05
31	Jihao Yu	Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science	41.75
35	Kendrick Nguyen	Fairmont Preparatory Academy	36.75
36	Andrii Obertas	Fryeburg Academy	36.25
40	Ernest Lu	Texas Academy of Math and Science	32.15
42	Albert Zhang	State College Area High School	31.35
45	Yevgeniy Gorbachev	Stuyvesant High School	29.5
46	Ethan Pereira	West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North	28.25
47	Akash Kumar	Adlai E. Stevenson High School	27.9
50	Shreya Singh	Centerville High School	25.45
52	Victor Li	The Wheatley School	25.4
55	Grant Daniels	Timpview High School	23.5
57	Austin Chen	Lubbock High	22
58	Kashvi Mundra	Lambert High School	21.75
62	Matthew Westley	Westview High School	12.825
64	Chris Jung	Canyon Crest Academy	10.825