<p>Anyone know how high your GPA usually has to be to graduate "With Distinction" (top 15%)?</p>
<p>From Stanford, or your own high school? The latter will be determined by your high school, so we don't know that.</p>
<p>Hmmmm, take a guess which one I'm talking about then. Why would I ask CC about my high school's stuff? I'm wondering if anyone knows what GPA it takes to graduate with distinction from Stanford?</p>
<p>I've seen a lot of really silly questions asked, including ones that make me say, "Why on <em>earth</em> would you ask that here? Who would know if your school does that?" </p>
<p>In your case, I wonder why you didn't just do a search of the Stanford web site. Popping "graduation with distinction" into the search box there yields: </p>
<p>"Distinction
In recognition of high scholastic attainment, the University awards the Bachelors Degree with Distinction. Distinction is awarded to 15% of the graduating class based on cumulative grade point averages calculated at the end of Winter Quarter. Distinction is noted on both the transcript and diploma."</p>
<p>cause I did that and, yeah, all it says is top 15%, which I already knew (as my initial post shows). What I'm wondering is if anyone on this forum knows what GPA values that translates into.</p>
<p>uh. it depends on the class itself.
"15% of class"
NOT
"3.4 and to 4" or whatever.</p>
<p>And he got upset at me for delicately asking what he meant, given the silliness of the initial question. Smaller words, maybe? </p>
<p>The other thing is that I think individual departments determine <em>their</em> top 15 percent, so the GPA varies between departments, and year to year.</p>
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<p>ok, first of all, it's 15% of the class as a whole - not by department. Obviously 15% isn't gonna be exactly the same each year, but, seeing as classes here are typically curved to assign a certain portion of students a particular grade, we should be able to ballpark the GPA needed for top 15% based on the last couple of years. Maybe I'll just change my question to: does anyone know how high of a GPA you needed to graduate With Distinction in the classes of 06, 05, 04...?</p>
<p>Sheesh. Bilabong was just asking a perfectly reasonable question.</p>
<p>If someone asked "What is the 25-75% SAT percentile range for Stanford," it's safe to say that the range is not going to change drastically over a period of 1 or 2 years. He just wanted to know roughly the 15 percentile mark in terms of GPA at Stanford.</p>