MD Does actual grade % matter?

[yungspleen]

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I go to a honors/pass/fail school and was wondering if your % grade in the class matters for class rank (i.e. is a 99% any different than a 90%). I would think not, and that honors is still honors, but the class average on tests has been so high that i could see 1/3 of the class getting all honors during preclinical years. In this scenario how does the school rank students?

 

[DBV]

Nobody cares about your preclinical grades. Clinical grades aren't numerical.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

no

 

[yungspleen]

Nobody cares about your preclinical grades. Clinical grades aren't numerical.

They factor into AOA though. I guess clinical year is when there starts to be some separation?

 

[ERDOC555]

Nobody cares about your preclinical grades. Clinical grades aren't numerical.

Wrong, many schools will keep the actual grade and then use it for ranking.

I know for a fact there is at least one school that uses % exactly for determing AOA for both preclinical and third year grades. Sure the transcipt only shows P/HP/H, but all rankings and AOA come from the exact percentile.

This will obviously vary from school to school