Elimination Chart
| Top 32 | Wild Card | Top 12 | Winner |
| Did Not Perform | Safe | Bottom 3 | Bottom 2 | Eliminated |
| Stage: | Semi-Finals | Wild Card | Finals | ||||||||||||||
| Week: | 2/5 | 2/12 | 2/19 | 2/26 | 3/5 | 3/12 | 3/19 | 3/26 | 4/1* | 4/9 | 4/16 | 4/23 | 4/30 | 5/7 | 5/14 | 5/21 | |
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| Place | Contestant | Result | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ruben Studdard | 1st | Bottom 2 | Winner | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Clay Aiken | 3rd | 1st | Runner-Up | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Kimberley Locke | 2nd | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 2 | Elim | ||||||||||
| 4 | Josh Gracin | 1st | Bottom 2 | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Trenyce | Wild Card | Top 12 | Bottom 2 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Elim | ||||||||||
| 6 | Carmen Rasmusen | Top 12 | Bottom 2 | Bottom 2 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Kimberly Caldwell | 3rd Wild Card |
Top 12 | Bottom 2 | Bottom 2 | Elim | |||||||||||
| 8 | Rickey Smith | 1st | Bottom 3 | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Corey Clark | 2nd | Bottom 2 | Disq | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Julia DeMato | 2nd | Bottom 2 | Bottom 3 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Charles Grigsby | 1st | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Vanessa Olivarez | 2nd | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| Wild Card |
Aliceyn Cooney | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| Chip Days | Wild Card | ||||||||||||||||
| Janine Falsone | |||||||||||||||||
| Olivia Mojica | |||||||||||||||||
| Nasheka Siddall | Wild Card | ||||||||||||||||
| Semi- Final 4 |
Juanita Barber | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| Sylvia Chibiliti | |||||||||||||||||
| Ashley Hartman | |||||||||||||||||
| Patrick Lake | 3rd Elim |
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| Semi-Final 3 | Samantha Cohen | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| Equoia Coleman | 3rd Elim |
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| Louis Gazzara | Elim | ||||||||||||||||
| Kimberly Kelsey | |||||||||||||||||
| Jordan Segundo | |||||||||||||||||
| George Trice | |||||||||||||||||
| Semi-Final 2 | Rebecca Bond | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| Candice Coleman | |||||||||||||||||
| Jennifer Fuentes | |||||||||||||||||
| Hadas | |||||||||||||||||
| Jacob John Smalley | |||||||||||||||||
| Semi-Final 1 | J.D. Adams | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| Meosha Denton | |||||||||||||||||
| Patrick Fortson | |||||||||||||||||
| Bettis Richardson | |||||||||||||||||
* None of the bottom 3 were eliminated on the April 2nd results show due to the disqualification of Corey Clark on previous day.
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