Can someone clarify: percentile for admits

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UCLA gives a breakdown of the percentile of admitted transfer students and the GPA. Can someone explain to me what this means?

  • Psychology, Pre GPAs: 3.73(25th%) 3.95(75th%)

Does that mean that 75% of Psych applicants scored less than 3.95 or 75% of admits scored 3.95 or higher? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m not a math major if it’s any consolation.

Also if you want to check out the profiles yourself, https://www.admission.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof15_mjr.htm :slight_smile:

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25th percentile of admits had an average gpa of 3.73
75th percentile had an average gpa of 3.95

so it means that you scored 25% above most or 75% above most
so if you’re in the 25th % then 75% of the admits had a higher gpa

atleast, I think so. I’m taking stats right now lol

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What bolognese said… FYI, if the data is normally distributed (or follows any other symmetrical distribution), adding the 25th and 75th percentiles and dividing by 2 gives you the mean.