Semester Vs Cumulative class rank Forum

Baileyc · Post by **Baileyc** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:31 am

This is probably a dumb question but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it. My school gives out class rank in the fall and spring. My fall rank was 17. My spring rank was 25. My overall class rank when my spring grades came out was 14. And my GPA went down .1 from fall to spring. How the hell did my overall rank go up?

Serett · Post by **Serett** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:50 am

Baileyc wrote:This is probably a dumb question but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it. My school gives out class rank in the fall and spring. My fall rank was 17. My spring rank was 25. My overall class rank when my spring grades came out was 14. And my GPA went down .1 from fall to spring. How the hell did my overall rank go up?

The right other people's GPA fell more.

Dr. Review · Post by **Dr. Review** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:59 am

Ah, yes. The underutilized skill of confused-bragging.

Baileyc · Post by **Baileyc** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:03 am

Dr. Review wrote:Ah, yes. The underutilized skill of confused-bragging.

Not what I was trying to do. I don't really give a shit to brag to the Internet world about my grades. Just legitimately confused about how my rank went up when my GPA went down, because I don't understand the curve so I thought rank would be based on overall GPA

Nekrowizard · Post by **Nekrowizard** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:08 am

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kartelite · Post by **kartelite** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:21 pm

The concept of regression to the mean is foreign to you? If so, just look it up (it is pretty intuitive regardless).

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