Help with grade distribution Forum
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Help with grade distribution
Grades just came out, waiting for rank is killing me. I got a 3.02. We are on a 4 point scale. Forced curve for my classes from 2.165-2.5. I hear the median is usually about a C+ from what I hear. From last year I heard someone with a 3.03 was 19th percentile.
I'm just crossing my fingers for top 25%
I'm just crossing my fingers for top 25%
- vanwinkle
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Re: Help with grade distribution
If 3.03 is 19th percentile then 3.02 is going to be ... 19-20%.
This isn't exactly complicated.
This isn't exactly complicated.
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Re: Help with grade distribution
lolvanwinkle wrote:If 3.03 is 19th percentile then 3.02 is going to be ... 19-20%.
This isn't exactly complicated.
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Re: Help with grade distribution
What I meant was within that range, what percentile would my GPA be? Do grade distributions vary much from year to year?
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Re: Help with grade distribution
DNA1984 wrote:What I meant was within that range, what percentile would my GPA be? Do grade distributions vary much from year to year?
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Re: Help with grade distribution
Lxw wrote:lolvanwinkle wrote:If 3.03 is 19th percentile then 3.02 is going to be ... 19-20%.
This isn't exactly complicated.
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will someone just tell me if grade distributions shift much from year to year?
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My school has grade distributions for the last 3-4 classes, and they don't seem to shift too substantially.DNA1984 wrote:will someone just tell me if grade distributions shift much from year to year?
Your school probably has similar information.
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Re: Help with grade distribution
From what I've heard, when a 3.03 GPA is 19th percentile one year, the next year, 3.03 is around 75th percentile the following year. It happens like clock works. Sucks to be you.DNA1984 wrote:Grades just came out, waiting for rank is killing me. I got a 3.02. We are on a 4 point scale. Forced curve for my classes from 2.165-2.5. I hear the median is usually about a C+ from what I hear. From last year I heard someone with a 3.03 was 19th percentile.
I'm just crossing my fingers for top 25%
But really, unless the school changes the curve, I can't imagine that the grade distributions would change dramatically. Relax, you're probably in the 18-22% range.
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You mean 81st percentile, not 19th.DNA1984 wrote:Grades just came out, waiting for rank is killing me. I got a 3.02. We are on a 4 point scale. Forced curve for my classes from 2.165-2.5. I hear the median is usually about a C+ from what I hear. From last year I heard someone with a 3.03 was 19th percentile.
I'm just crossing my fingers for top 25%
Also, brutal curve.
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Re: Help with grade distribution
yeah, I'm just kinda worried that the median is forced from a 2.165 to a 2.5
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