<p>I've always wondered about this, but what is the average GPA in LSA?
What about the standard deviation?</p>
<p>the avg gpa in LSA is 4.4</p>
<p>I remember being told the average GPA in LSA was a 3.2, and having some other data by which I calculated that the standard deviation was a .6. Likely not very accurate (probably based off of a single data point beside the median), but it’s what I have.</p>
<p>3.2 was the number I heard, too. But I don’t remember where.</p>
<p>3.2 seems reasonable, but a 0.6 standard deviation seems really high.</p>
<p>The SD can’t be .6 if you look at it from a common sense perspective.</p>
<p>I know… Which is why I also said “Likely not very accurate (probably based off of a single data point beside the median), but it’s what I have.”</p>
<p>From a few different numbers, I got a standard deviation of .45 for CoE. You might expect the LSA GPA SD to be near that. </p>
<p>I have a feeling it’s farther from normally distributed in LSA than in CoE. Maybe it’s not close enough in LSA to assume it is normally distributed at all for any practical purposes.</p>
<p>Some interesting data that could help with SD would be the cutoffs for honor designations, ie, Summa/Magna/- Cum Laude and so on. </p>
<p>In LSA, I believe these vary from year to year and are given to some % of students, something like 3% get Summa, then the next 10% get Magna, and so on. I believe they occasionally publish these numbers. I remember seeing them online, but I don’t have it handy.</p>
<p>I found this on CC
from another post</p>
<p>"
Heres something copy and pasted from my program–university of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Note that engineering, education, and other programs are totally different, and have their own standards.
These change yearly FYI.</p>
<p>"LSA awards students who are ranked in the top 25%, 10%, and 3% of their class with distinction on their transcripts and diplomas. The top 25% will be awarded “distinction,” the top 10% with “high distinction,” and the top 3% with “highest distinction.” The GPA range for distinction is determined on the cumulative GPAs of the LSA May graduating class and is subject to change every year based on the GPAs of the May class. If you graduate in December or August, the GPA range for distinction will be based off the preceding May graduating class. Distinction is usually determined by the second week of June.</p>
<p>May, August and December 2007 graduates:
Higest Distinction: 3.930 - 4.000
High Distinction: 3.821 - 3.929
Distinction: 3.649 - 3.820"
"</p>
<p>That’s very not-normal… If you really want a number you can use .51 (I averaged the “if this were normal, what would the standard deviation be” numbers for those three distinctions), but it’s not very useful. </p>
<p>GPA distribution of CoE was way more normal.</p>
<p>As you’ll see, LSA’s gpa ranges fluctuate year to year: [College</a> of Literature, Science, and the Arts | Students](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umich/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a9a3afbe082ba110VgnVCM100000a3b1d38dRCRD]College”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umich/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a9a3afbe082ba110VgnVCM100000a3b1d38dRCRD)</p>
<p>Also, we don’t use latin honors; those are left to pedantic east coasters.</p>
<p>Can a stats person make a histogram from this data?
It would be useful to us all.</p>
<p>"Also, we don’t use latin honors; those are left to pedantic east coasters. "</p>
<p>I am sorry that unsophisticated midwesterners like you will not understand the “summa cum laude” on my engineering degree. I’d rather be a sophisticated pedant than an unsophisticated simpleton.</p>
<p>Yea I want Latin. That’s what employers will understand. I’m writing the Latin equivalent on my resume. Don’t get why CoE does it but LSA doesn’t.</p>
<p>^ I am pretty sure you are not allowed to write latin honors on your resume until you graduate dude…</p>
<p>Yes, I’m pretty sure of that as well. “I’m writing the Latin equivalent on my resume” was meant to indicate in the future.</p>
<p>Do bschool kids get latin honors?</p>
<p>No. They get absurd grade inflation.</p>
<p>…which doesn’t really mean anything because recruiters look at kids within the context of the college (Ross), right?</p>
<p>Lol big fight over semantics is lolzy</p>