Bottom of the class Forum

[sarahlawg]

Just don't end up in the bottom of the class. It's as simple as that.

Unfortunately, 50% of people fail to do this every year, despite warnings.

I guess that 50% graduate at the lower half of their class is a mathematical certainty.

well just because there is a median, doesn't mean 50% of the class falls below that median. You could have a large group of people with the median score, no?

[DubPoker]

I guess that 50% graduate at the lower half of their class is a mathematical certainty.

well just because there is a median, doesn't mean 50% of the class falls below that median. You could have a large group of people with the median score, no?

[vanwinkle]

I guess that 50% graduate at the lower half of their class is a mathematical certainty.

well just because there is a median, doesn't mean 50% of the class falls below that median. You could have a large group of people with the median score, no?

TITCR.

[Aberzombie1892]

Just don't end up in the bottom of the class. It's as simple as that.

Unfortunately, 50% of people fail to do this every year, despite warnings.

I guess that 50% graduate at the lower half of their class is a mathematical certainty.

well just because there is a median, doesn't mean 50% of the class falls below that median. You could have a large group of people with the median score, no?

It is very rare that two people have the exact same GPA down to 4 decimal places (even though it only shows three).

[sarahlawg]

It is very rare that two people have the exact same GPA down to 4 decimal places (even though it only shows three).

okay, this is the clarification I needed. what I meant by doesn't mean 50% falls below is like if you had several with the same you could jumble them up and different people would 'fall below'. but if it's rare that there is a cluster of people with the median score, then that makes sense.

[Patriot1208]

It is very rare that two people have the exact same GPA down to 4 decimal places (even though it only shows three).

okay, this is the clarification I needed. what I meant by doesn't mean 50% falls below is like if you had several with the same you could jumble them up and different people would 'fall below'. but if it's rare that there is a cluster of people with the median score, then that makes sense.

You needed clarification on the likelihood of a large number of people having the same exact gpa, specifically the median gpa of the class?

[sarahlawg]

It is very rare that two people have the exact same GPA down to 4 decimal places (even though it only shows three).

okay, this is the clarification I needed. what I meant by doesn't mean 50% falls below is like if you had several with the same you could jumble them up and different people would 'fall below'. but if it's rare that there is a cluster of people with the median score, then that makes sense.

You needed clarification on the likelihood of a large number of people having the same exact median gpa?

well, I've had people tell me that professors will give a small number of As and a small number of Cs and the rest will be Bs. It didn't seem particularly hard for me to believe that several people could always wind up getting Bs. I was just thinking about 1L year.

[bk1]

well, I've had people tell me that professors will give a small number of As and a small number of Cs and the rest will be Bs. It didn't seem particularly hard for me to believe that several people could always wind up getting Bs. I was just thinking about 1L year.

Remember that these same people have 8 classes or so and there are differentiations between pluses and minuses. 1L isn't based off of a single grade.

[ahduth]

I'm going to be in this bottom 20-30% of the class group as well. What steps should I be taking to improve my job prospects?

[Metaread]

On a related note: Does anyone have a chart with the top 50 law school's GPA curves or lack thereof?

[ahduth]

On a related note: Does anyone have a chart with the top 50 law school's GPA curves or lack thereof?

They don't all use bell curves? o.O

[BeenDidThat]

I'm going to be in this bottom 20-30% of the class group as well. What steps should I be taking to improve my job prospects?

You're joking, right? Didn't you start a thread asking about the definition of BigLaw?

[Metaread]

Different law schools have different curves, according to Wikipedia. I know UC Irvine curves to 3.3. Not as sure about others.

[Kohinoor]

I'm going to be in this bottom 20-30% of the class group as well. What steps should I be taking to improve my job prospects?