What is the 10% Cutoff for your school.

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>We all hear about grade inflation in colleges, but it is all too common in highschools too.
So what is the 10% cutoff for your school? </p>

<p>My school curves its tests to a 75% average, while not giving credit for completion assingments, so the cutoff for my school is at LEAST a 3.6 GPA.</p>

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<p>ours is 103.33
we got some mad inflation</p>

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<p>Whats a 10% cutoff?</p>

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<p>Its the lowest grade you can get and still be ranked in the top 10 percent.</p>

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<p>4.18 weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale with weighted courses giving 5.0 for an A.</p>

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<p>Oh…we don’t have a cutoff at my school…the top 10% is the 10% of students with the highest grades…</p>

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<p>well yeah thats what i mean. the cutoff is what the lowest guy has in the top 10%.</p>

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<p>@momomomo </p>

<p>A better question to phrase it is “What is the GPA of the 10% percenitle student.”</p>

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<p>Ohhhh haha I get it. We don’t have weighted GPA at our school. The 10th percentile probably has something like a 3.7…we do Top 10 scholars at my school though, because 10% is about 50 kids. The tenth kid has at least a 3.9</p>

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<p>top 10% is somewhere around a 95… my grade’s achievement level is so much higher than any previous grade (or any upcoming grades) that we screwed up the grade norms.</p>

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<p>3.4ish. I know.</p>

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<p>97/100. Stupid tests being curved to 90s…</p>

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<p>About 3.8 on a 4.5 scale (getting a 4.5 is only possible if you take all ap classes frosh-senior, and get all a’s in the ap classes which isn’t possible)</p>

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<p>i think its around a 5.1 or 5.2 on a 5 point scale. So its pretty much impossible unless you are taking and getting mostly A’s in all advanced classes.</p>

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<p>3.8 on a 4.0 scale for freshman year. Around a 3.67 by the end of Junior year…</p>

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<p>Definitely above a 4.0, but fairly close.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure our school’s cutoff is so low that it isn’t publicized. I’d guess around a 3.0 (unweighted after junior year), max.</p>

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<p>Ours is roughly 3.67.</p>

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<p>was 28th person.</p>

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<p>Probably around 3.90-3.95 on a 4.0 unweighted scale. Hopefully it doesn’t go up to 3.96-3.97, or else I won’t be in the top 10%… (Yes, there are disadvantages to having 20+ valedictorians.)</p>