Note : This is the first poll in what is intended to be a series. The poll is not specifically affiliated with the GW Trivia Club although GW Trivia Club members do participate in it. For questions and/or comments about this poll, email Adam Humphries of the University of South Carolina, who is nice enough to run the poll. A good deal of the information on the table is not available for this poll ; our goal is to provide this info for future results.

Informal Academic Competition Top 25 Poll

February 1998 (Post Regional/Sectionals)
Rank School Points Ballots High #1 Prev. Rank
1
University of Chicago
651
 ? 1 13 ?
2
University of Virginia
628
 ? 1 7 ?
3
University of Maryland - College Park
606
 ? 1 4 ?
4
Harvard University
598
 ? 1 3 ?
5
University of Michigan
517
 ? ? - ?
6
Cornell University
512
 ? ? - ?
7
University of California - Berkeley
468
 ? ? - ?
8
Stanford University
438
 ? ? - ?
9
Vanderbilt University
414
 ? ? - ?
10
Georgia Institute of Technology
323
 ? ? - ?
11
Brigham Young University
295
 ? ? - ?
12
University of Illinois
278
 ? ? - ?
13
Johns Hopkins University
250
 ? ? - ?
14
Mass. Institute of Technology
248
 ? ? - ?
15
University of South Carolina
222
 ? ? - ?
16
Princeton University
218
 ? ? - ?
17
University of Florida
215
 ? ? - ?
18
Swarthmore College
198
 ? ? - ?
19
Carleton College
197
 ? ? - ?
20
University of Texas - Dallas
183
 ? ? - ?
21
George Washington University
169
 ? ? - ?
22
University of Iowa
126
 ? ? - ?
23
Yale University
105
 ? ? - ?
24
Virginia Tech
101
 ? ? - ?
25
University of Minnesota
89
 ? ? - ?

Other Schools Receiving Votes :

(Not available.)

Total Points : Each participant gives 25 points to whomever he/she ranks #1, 24 points for #2, and so on, awarding 1 point for a #25 ranking.
Ballots : Number of ballots each team appeared on.
High : Highest position on any voter's ballot.
#1 : Number of #1 votes school received, if any.
Prev. Rank : Rank school achieved in the previous poll, if any.

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