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Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:54 pm
by Mce252
I've tried to figure it out to no avail. If you know how to get a rough estimate, here are my data points:

My GPA: 4.044

# of Students: 339

Average: 2.918

Top 2%: 4.000

Top 5 %: 3.867

Top 10 %: 3.625

Top 15 %: 3.533

Top 20%: 3.445

Top 25%: 3.378

Top 33.3%: 3.267

Top 50%: 2.959

Re: Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:56 pm
by Bildungsroman
Why? You're clearly in the top 2%, and it's not like you can tell employers anything more definite re: your rank/percentile, unless you're given the correct information by the school.

Re: Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:57 pm
by UnitarySpace
Using the Monte Carlo method, your class rank is approximately 40/339 with 99% accuracy.

Re: Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:59 pm
by Mce252
Bildungsroman wrote:Why? You're clearly in the top 2%, and it's not like you can tell employers anything more definite re: your rank/percentile, unless you're given the correct information by the school.

Oh, I know. I just saw people that had magical statistics skills in a thread a while back, so I thought I'd ask out of curiousity.

Re: Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:51 pm
by Judge Philip Banks
Mce252 wrote:a rough estimate
You're obviously within the top 5 or 6 students. But anyway:
Bildungsroman wrote:it's not like you can tell employers anything more definite re: your rank/percentile, unless you're given the correct information by the school.

Re: Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:57 pm
by NYC Law

Re: Help me calculate my class rank please

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:18 pm
by Arbiter213
That's not a normal distribution. Somewhere in the top 8.