<p>First, you can have senior standing for more than one year. I had senior standing for about 2.5 years or so. As a result, the list is a bit smaller than what it really looks like. (You can compare with previous classes and see some overlaps…)</p>
<p>Second, this one looks like a very strong class. Go back one year, and there’s just 11.</p>
<p>Third, the people who take the worst of the GPA hit/curving never end up graduating as an EE. So they’re filtered out somewhere earlier in the process, and don’t show up in the statistics at all.</p>