Required Competitions

Each Contestant will compete in three equal phases of preliminary competition: Fun Fashion, Gown, and Interview. The numerical scores or mentions from the preliminary phases of competition are added up, and the contestants with the highest composite score or mentions become semifinalists. The number of semifinalists will be determined by the total number of contestants in the competition. The semi-finalists will be presented in Fun Fashion, Gown and answer their On-Stage Question and ranked for court placement through final balloting which will result in the crowning of the national winners. 

MINIMUM SCORE POLICY:

If a delegate is the ONLY person in her division for one of our 3 national titles of Miss American Teenager; Miss American Junior Teenager or Miss American Preteenager she must earn a MINIMUM PRELIMINARY SCORE OF AT LEAST 75 POINTS out of the maximum 90 eligible points. If she doesn't earn the required minimum score from the judges the Miss American Teenager Pageant will not crown a winner for said division and the national prize package will not be awarded.

Once the semi-finalists are announced during the final show, they will again compete and the competition will narrow the field to a group of finalists. The judges will then make their final ranking based on their overall impression of each finalist. The judges will select a winner and runner-ups for each of the courts.