<p>For those of you who have been notified- where do you live?</p>
<p>how do you get notified if they don’t tell anyone until Feb. 1st?</p>
<p>they email the finalists first</p>
<p>man this sucks major cuz i’m sure i got 40/40 this year, and last year i got 39/40 and still made the top 5…and my state (Florida) is supposedly dumb!</p>
<p>so no one has heard yet?</p>
<p>would you say u did pretty well?</p>
<p>i thought so but i guess its hard to know for sure, what about you?</p>
<p>didnt see your earlier post- do you remember how long it took for them to notify you last year</p>
<p>it took exactly 8 days after the contest period ended, and according to my friend who had done it the previous year, 8 days as well. she hasn’t (as far as i know, i haven’t talked to her in like a day or 2) received anything, and hers is a family of geniuses that never fails at anything (she made the top 12 last year, her brothers both got second place in years before, and her oldest brother won the national geo bee)</p>
<p>o wow, well i read something saying that the number of entrants had been increasing, so maybe that means its taking longer…</p>
<p>true but by now i know of at least 3 people who have received notifications…</p>
<p>ah wishful thinking perhaps on my part…oh well, i do have next year and the year after next if nothing goes my way…</p>
<p>ya thats true- they’re all florida people right?</p>
<p>no, one’s hawaii, one’s tennessee, and one’s the guy who posted earlier on this forum (Chaos777)…still holding out hope that Florida simply hasn’t been sent out yet…along with my friend who’s in South Carolina, so maybe east coast taking some time??</p>
<p>i know some people werent notified until feb 3 last year… more wishful thinking</p>
<p>ya i’m east coast 2 so hopefully</p>
<p>same here, east coast. I was also sure i got 40/40 correct, but w/e.</p>
<p>I’m`sure I got a 40. Do they notify you if you don’t win. Also, do you get to see your score and see what you got right and wrong?</p>
<p>Also, what if more than 5 people got a perfect score in a state. Would they have another tiebreaker or something? Or, do they take the top 5 with the fastest times?</p>
<p>I know quite a few people who didn’t get anything at all last year, so I’m guessing non-winners don’t get any notification. No, you do not ever see your score nor what you got right or wrong. The website says that “random drawings” will occur in the event of a tie, but as more and more people take the Challenge every year, AAA is going to have to find a better tiebreaker system, like, as you said, the 5 fastest times.</p>
<p>the 5 fastest times is really bad idea. Its not fair. Neither is random drawings. But, do you think a state will have 5 perfect scores.</p>