Which of these schools would be the easiest to be top 5-10%?? Forum

[asdfdfdfadfas]

If the class has an even number of people (again barring any exact grade ties) then it is even more difficult (read: impossible) to end up exactly at median, and thus you have infinitely more chance of being top 10% than median.

Speak for yourself - plenty of people at ITT tech are perfectly capable of being exactly median in and even class.

Furthermore, it should be noted that every one of my posts in this thread have been utter farce. I did not expect to have to explicitly announce that, but some of the more serious responses had me worried.

[asdfdfdfadfas]

That's nonsense...

It's not nonsense; it's simple math: 60 > 20.

Furthermore I think it's ridiculous to assume median going into law school. Except in the case of EXACT ties in GPA, there will only be 1 student (assuming an odd-numbered class size) that is median. Only one. There is an insanely low probability of being that one student. As I pointed out in my example above, some schools have upwards of 50 people in the top 10%, much more than the measly 1 student who will be median. It's pretty simple actually: if the class size is >10, you are more likely to be top 10% than median.

10 out of 100 is 10%, 100 out of 1000 is still 10%. Just because there are more overall students does not mean your chances to be at the top are any better or worse, they would be identical, assuming all else is equal.

So there are 10 slots in the top 10% if the class size is 100, and 100 slots if the class size is 1000. I'd just need one of those slots, so i have a better shot in the smaller class because 1/10 is better than 1/100.

[Clyde Frog]

People underestimate the cognitive benefits of a lazy river.

[Hutz_and_Goodman]

If you truly believe this a question that can be answered, you aren't going to be capable of hitting top 5-10% at any of these schools.

Credited

[Indifference]

It depends.

[B0bL0blaw]

The odds of achieving Top 5-10% at each of these schools is going to be 5-10% each.

No, it's 50/50. You're either Top 5-10% or you're not.

[SFSpartan]

The odds of achieving Top 5-10% at each of these schools is going to be 5-10% each.

No, it's 50/50. You're either Top 5-10% or you're not.

I'm not sure you understand what top 5-10% means. For every 100 students, 5-10 of them can be in the top 5-10%. Hence, an individual's odds of making that cutoff, are going to be 5-10% as compared with their peers. Your logic only works for things like flipping a coin, where there are only two possibilities.

[stego]

The odds of achieving Top 5-10% at each of these schools is going to be 5-10% each.

No, it's 50/50. You're either Top 5-10% or you're not.

(Doesn't understand how odds work)

[B0bL0blaw]

The odds of achieving Top 5-10% at each of these schools is going to be 5-10% each.

No, it's 50/50. You're either Top 5-10% or you're not.

(Doesn't understand how odds work)

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The odds of achieving Top 5-10% at each of these schools is going to be 5-10% each.

No, it's 50/50. You're either Top 5-10% or you're not.

I'm not sure you understand what top 5-10% means. For every 100 students, 5-10 of them can be in the top 5-10%. Hence, an individual's odds of making that cutoff, are going to be 5-10% as compared with their peers. Your logic only works for things like flipping a coin, where there are only two possibilities.

Sorry, I thought this was obvious, but my comment was tongue-in-cheek, in keeping with 90+% of this thread. I guess I should have used /sarcasm/ at the end, to make it 100% obvious.