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KMaine wrote:Other 25 - I will take the real thing next week.

DF - Thanks for the estimate!

Dr. Strangelove wrote:If law schools are tight-lipped about their curves to mitigate stress levels of law students, it's a pretty dumb reason.
I second DF's approximation.

thesealocust wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:These aren't exact because it isn't a truly normalized scale. But it's a fair approximation.

Actually, you'd be surprised

<---- has done these calcs for people assuming a normal distribution and had it confirmed when actual rankings came out in almost every instance

miamiman wrote:df, briefly, how are you calculating the SD?

Desert Fox wrote:

miamiman wrote:df, briefly, how are you calculating the SD?

By solving the probability density function for a normalized curve, at the percents he gave me. If you have the median, and the rank at one spot, you can solve for the SD.

miamiman wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

miamiman wrote:df, briefly, how are you calculating the SD?

By solving the probability density function for a normalized curve, at the percents he gave me. If you have the median, and the rank at one spot, you can solve for the SD.

but we only have the mean.

Desert Fox wrote:

miamiman wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

miamiman wrote:df, briefly, how are you calculating the SD?

By solving the probability density function for a normalized curve, at the percents he gave me. If you have the median, and the rank at one spot, you can solve for the SD.

but we only have the mean.

Yea you are right, I didn't even read that the first time.

Technically you could set up a system of equations and solved for the two variables but that will take a lot more work.

Tautology wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

miamiman wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

By solving the probability density function for a normalized curve, at the percents he gave me. If you have the median, and the rank at one spot, you can solve for the SD.

but we only have the mean.

Yea you are right, I didn't even read that the first time.

Technically you could set up a system of equations and solved for the two variables but that will take a lot more work.

In a normal distribution, which we're assuming, the mean is the same as the median.

thesealocust wrote:

miamiman wrote:better question: lawyers are, generally speaking, fucking math retarded. do they just eyeball it and say... "it's PROBABLY this" or do they have the dir. of recruiting crunch numbers

BAM! You're a hiring director. You get 100 applications for an interview. You can only pick 40 to interview. Do you:

A) Pick the best 40 resumes

B) Attempt to eyeball GPA cut offs and ensure that any resume with a GPA below your guess doesn't get further consideration

C) Have the director of recruiting crunch numbers, create a GPA cut off, and ensure that any resume with a GPA below the calculation doesn't get further consideration.

It's not fucking rocket science. If 160 people bid on Cravath, they'll pick 80 interesting people to interview. When it comes time to make callback decisions, they'll look at GPAs + interview notes, factor in expectations based on experience, and then call some people back.

Put simply: They have so many resumes that they have no need for calculating a percentile - they can just say "oh, this d00d has a GPA lower than 70 of my 80 resumes, probably not going to call him back". Percentiles are handy for us because we tend to have many fewer data points to work with.

miamiman wrote:I got an A+ in stat (at HYPS no less) and don't remember shit to save my life.

Thanks for that. I predict good things for your social life when you get to law school.