Knowing your class rank?

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How are you notified of your class rank at your school? I just recently read a post on SDN from someone who said they were tied for 25 out of 104 with a 3.9 GPA. Does your class rank appear on your transcript after every semester/quarter b/c I have yet to find anything on my transcript that indicates class rank (just finished D1 1st semester).

 

[SiemReap]

just sit tight. you'll get it eventually. At my school, we didnt get our ranks until after first year.

 

[og2]

think it depends on the school. at my school no one tells us our class rank unless we specifically ask the administration for it (it doesn't show on our transcript) or if we wait until we see the summary of the dean's letter for postgrad applications. the first time i saw my class rank when it was time to apply for specialty programs 😛

 

[og2]

as an aside, being tied for 25/104 with a 3.9GPA means there is some serious grade inflation going on at that particular school you mentioned. that's ridiculous!

 

[og2]

ah, and one last thing -- usually schools will provide class rank PER YEAR and CUMULATIVE (as far as i know they won't modify ranks during the middle of an academic year), meaning they'll provide you with rank information for each year of dental school on its own (basically treat it as a clean slate every year) and a cumulative ranking for the body of work you've done throughout dental school up to that point in time. obviously it's the CUMULATIVE rank that matters the most, but of course it helps if you had one bad year to make it up stellar yearly ranks in other years. hope all that gibberish makes sense 🙂

 

[Domtar]

Which school ranks their students and which doesn't? I heard that the Ivies, UConn, UCSF and UCLA doesn't rank their students and every other schools does...is this true?

 

[Streetwolf]

Stony Brook doesn't rank. We keep track of GPAs for administrative use - they give 'high honors' to the 2nd ranked and 'highest honors' to the 1st ranked. That's it.

 

[jay47]

Stony Brook doesn't rank. We keep track of GPAs for administrative use - they give 'high honors' to the 2nd ranked and 'highest honors' to the 1st ranked. That's it.

Lol, sounds like you are doing pretty good. I sure wouldn't doubt it....

 

[jay47]

as an aside, being tied for 25/104 with a 3.9GPA means there is some serious grade inflation going on at that particular school you mentioned. that's ridiculous!

This school obviously ranks on a 4.0 scale, where A is a 4.0. That means the person got one B. I don't know why this is unreasonable, especially given the avg. gpa is around 3.6, which means that about 60% of the grades that person made were A's (yeah, yeah, just quick estimating, I know)

A lot of your class has all A's, even if low A's. Dental school is full of talented students, the creme of the crop, and they are usually going to be hard workers. I would expect this.

 

[btk2333]

This school obviously ranks on a 4.0 scale, where A is a 4.0. That means the person got one B. I don't know why this is unreasonable, especially given the avg. gpa is around 3.6, which means that about 60% of the grades that person made were A's (yeah, yeah, just quick estimating, I know)

A lot of your class has all A's, even if low A's. Dental school is full of talented students, the creme of the crop, and they are usually going to be hard workers. I would expect this.

I would say that most dental schools are not like this. Everyone may have gotten A's going in but if you are expecting 23 people to have 4.0's I think you will be in for a big surprise

 

[americanpierg]

This school obviously ranks on a 4.0 scale, where A is a 4.0. That means the person got one B. I don't know why this is unreasonable, especially given the avg. gpa is around 3.6, which means that about 60% of the grades that person made were A's (yeah, yeah, just quick estimating, I know)

A lot of your class has all A's, even if low A's. Dental school is full of talented students, the creme of the crop, and they are usually going to be hard workers. I would expect this.

the top 25 plus ties in a class of 104 having 3.9 GPA+ being the norm? What school do you go to... Even with a fairly generous curve where the As are given to the top 20% of the class, that would mean the same 1/4th of the class with that near perfect GPA are getting all the As, with 1 or 2 Bs sprinkled in there every year. The rest of the students would therefore be regulated to B students and below. With the level of competition, this rarely happens.

If dental school is full of talented students, creme of the crop as you say, then that would prevent situations like this from happening (assuming classes are graded on a curve). The top 1/4th of the class wouldnt be able to run away from the competition like this. if the top 1/4th of the class is earning 3.9+, the GPA of the next 1/4th wouldn't be much higher than a 3.0 (assuming again that classes are graded on a curve) That's a pretty big gap...

 

[jay47]

the top 25 plus ties in a class of 104 having 3.9 GPA+ being the norm? What school do you go to... Even with a fairly generous curve where the As are given to the top 20% of the class, that would mean the same 1/4th of the class with that near perfect GPA are getting all the As, with 1 or 2 Bs sprinkled in there every year. The rest of the students would therefore be regulated to B students and below. With the level of competition, this rarely happens.

If dental school is full of talented students, creme of the crop as you say, then that would prevent situations like this from happening (assuming classes are graded on a curve). The top 1/4th of the class wouldnt be able to run away from the competition like this. if the top 1/4th of the class is earning 3.9+, the GPA of the next 1/4th wouldn't be much higher than a 3.0 (assuming again that classes are graded on a curve) That's a pretty big gap...

I didn't know that most dental schools grade on a curve, which would answer the question of why there are so many with a close GPA. Ours does not grade on a curve.

 

[jay47]

I would say that most dental schools are not like this. Everyone may have gotten A's going in but if you are expecting 23 people to have 4.0's I think you will be in for a big surprise

Okay, maybe not 23 people, but as a previous poster commented, if a school is graded on a curve where the top 20% get A's, then you would likely have close to 20% (or around 20 students) with all A's in the class= 4.0. Of course, assuming that those students who make an A in one class are more likely to make an A in another class.