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Semester Vs Cumulative class rank
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:31 am
by Baileyc
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?
Re: Semester Vs Cumulative class rank
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:50 am
by Serett
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.
Re: Semester Vs Cumulative class rank
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:59 am
by Dr. Review
Ah, yes. The underutilized skill of confused-bragging.
Re: Semester Vs Cumulative class rank
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:03 am
by Baileyc
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
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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:08 am
by Nekrowizard
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Re: Semester Vs Cumulative class rank
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:21 pm
by kartelite
The concept of regression to the mean is foreign to you? If so, just look it up (it is pretty intuitive regardless).