how does class rank work?

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Let's say the top 10% of the class gets honors. Pretend the class has 250 students. What if there's a 50-person tie for the top cumulative score? Then 20% of the class would get honors, right?

I realize this is a stupid example and also a stupid Q.

But what I don't get is... how does class ranking work if there are massive ties?

I guess the answer to my own Q is everyone tied would get honors. But that seems screwy to me for some reason.

 

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[TexasPhysician]

On the interview trail right now, and class rank seems to matter very little if at all.

 

[DrYoda]

Let's say the top 10% of the class gets honors. Pretend the class has 250 students. What if there's a 50-person tie for the top cumulative score? Then 20% of the class would get honors, right?

I realize this is a stupid example and also a stupid Q.

But what I don't get is... how does class ranking work if there are massive ties?

I guess the answer to my own Q is everyone tied would get honors. But that seems screwy to me for some reason.

They can use your percent score.

 

[HPSPpayissues]

The admissions office multiply your overall percentage grade to how much they think it should worth. For example, lets say you got a 78% overall in gross anatomy, 95% in behavioral, 85% in internal medicine and 76% in surgery. Now, lets just say that they weight anatomy much more than behavioral: anatomy is worth 15% of your overall preclinical while behavioral is 7% overall. Also, lets say clerkship grades are worth much more than the first two years; 75% former to 25% latter... A sample calculation would come out like this:

.25[ (78*.15) +(95 *.07)+ other preclinicals ] + .75 [ (85*.25) + (76*.25) + other rotations]

In short, pre-clinicals weight so much less compare to the clinical ones, but they do count for something. I mean you don't want to get like 10% out of 25%, lol. From what I got, I think our school does something like this to come up with their overall ranking.
In some schools where my friends go, they don't even factor in pre-clinicals.

 

[Forthegood]

At our school, if there is a tie, then they use grade percentiles. So a 90 and a 91 might both make As, but IF there was a tie, then the 91 would rank higher.

I doubt it ever happens. Only 100 kids at my school, and they only rank in quartiles. Not a lot of competetion here, except for about 10 students anyway... and the rest of us hate them!

BTW, preclinical grades mean nothing. NOTHING. See attachment. 👍

 

[mq123]

On the interview trail right now, and class rank seems to matter very little if at all.

What about for AOA selection? I know it's probably been discussed ad nauseum around here somewhere, and I also know it varies from school to school, but what top % are usually invited to join?

 

[ChiDO]

What about for AOA selection? I know it's probably been discussed ad nauseum around here somewhere, and I also know it varies from school to school, but what top % are usually invited to join?

http://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/how.html

1/6th of the top 25% of the class can be selected for AOA.

Thus, if your class has 100 students, the top 25 are eligible, but only 4 students are chosen.

 

[dude1344]

http://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/how.html

1/6th of the top 25% of the class can be selected for AOA.

Thus, if your class has 100 students, the top 25 are eligible, but only 4 students are chosen.

Wrong...

"From this top quartile of students, each chapter may elect to AΩA membership up to one-sixth of the projected number of students that will graduate."

100 person class => top 25 eligible => pick (1/6)*100 = ~16 people.

 

[OpalOnyx]

nvm.