<p>Cut off 55 and 90? I wouldn’t say “cut-off”, I’d say average because the averages are usually 54-56 and 85-90 for top 20 so there could be lucky people who barely made it with a 53/83 or something?</p>
<p>What are people’s favorite elements? My favorite is iodine.</p>
<p>Tungsten :D</p>
<p>My favorite element is uranium, specifically the isotope with 143 neutrons.</p>
<p>I just undertsood your name!!! Gosh I’m slow</p>
<p>@thenerdyjew Is that because of Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks?</p>
<p>No I just love how most of the elements with one-letter symbols are near the beginning of the Periodic Table, and then bam there’s tungsten, being all proud with it’s W in period 6</p>
<p>could you please tell us about your success in ranking top 20 if you receive a phone call from ACS next Monday?</p>
<p>People will be called next Friday, the 4th.</p>
<p>@Dreamschool, where did you get the info that they’ll be calling on Monday?</p>
<p>On their site, under “coordinators”
[Chemistry</a> Olympiad Coordinators](<a href=“American Chemical Society”>American Chemical Society)</p>
<p>It says on May 4th they will be contacted (next Friday)</p>
<p>In that case, May the Fourth be with all of us.</p>
<p>When I asked for clarification from our local coordinator, she said that May 4th was the date for grading the multi-choice questions. Sometimes I’m more clued in than she is though, so I don’t really have a for sure answer.</p>
<p>There is another link on the ACS website that says May 15th is the magic day.</p>
<p>@Crazymonster:
On May 4th, they call the top 20. For the next 11 days, they get responses and the paperwork is all filled out and everything is set for camp. Then on May 15th, they publish the list of top 20 on the internet.</p>
<p>^ thanks for the info</p>
<p>Anybody with big plans for USNCO 2013?</p>
<p>For sure gonna study super hard for camp and maybe even IChO (but that’s still really far away)</p>
<p>I’m going to focus on more organic for next year</p>
<p>I’m gonna take everybody’s advice and start really early with Atkin’s Chemical Principles, work through the whole book hopefully, and use my brother’s O-Chem book</p>
<p>i just guess</p>