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2005 Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest

First Place

Maria C. McRaven, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Second Place

Chris Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Martin Glazier, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Alexander Haig, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Third Place

Ryan Menezes, Boston University, Boston, MA 
Jukka Valimaa, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 
Lisa Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA 

James Wray, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 

Peter Zuckerman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Finalists 

Katherine Adams, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
Rachel Bender, SUNY Postdam, Potsdam, NY
Rachel Evans, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Gena Gorlin, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Danielle Hartman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Audra Hilse, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Parker Hjelmberg, Winona State University, Winona, MN
Bach Ho, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Crystal Ives, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Derek Jacobs, Cornell College, MT. Vernon, IA
Noah Karp, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Jina Lee, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
Justin Novotny, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
Alexandra Olney, College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA.
Christopher Richardson, Salt Lake Community College, SLC, UT
Megan Ringel, Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ
Kirti Singh, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
Kelly Smith, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Kara Soderstrom, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Dallas Walker, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Semi-Finalists   

Jessica Bod, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Jonathan Ferrugia, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Thomas Hanson, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Tzipora Henig, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Bethany Holmes, Middlebury College, Vermont,
Martha Hopkins, Durham College, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Jennifer Hsieh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Daniel Jackson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Peter Laumann, University of Florida, Gaineswille, FL
Christopher Lauritzen, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
Sujung Lim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Matthew Lindeman, Sanit John's University, Collegeville, MN
Rachel Mekwunye, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA
Mallory Nelson, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
David Nolan, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
Ben O'Neill, Australian National University, Acton, Australia
Sarah Pullen, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Pamela Stacey, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Kim Stephenson, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
John Thorlin, Georgetown College, Washington, DC