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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's going on at TJ that a 4.4 is only top 30%?

What's a 3.9 GPA... bottom 5%?

Talk about grade inflation.  What a joke.[/quote]
Top 30% is not 30th percentile you dumba$$. No one knows the exact number so they give a conservative range. Your brain is too small to participate in any meaningful conversation.[/quote]

Hey jerkweed, you're the only one talking about percentiles.  Try to follow along.

If a 4.4 gpa for a junior at TJ is only top 30% then the TJ grading system is an absolute joke.  [/quote]

Or the kids there are pretty smart.[/quote]

You can’t make blanket statements like this with the rising seniors on down. [/quote]
I'm not saying there hasn't been a drop in average student quality but that is just on average.  
The biggest drops are at the bottom of the class.
The top 20-30% of kids there would probably still have gotten in under a merit based system.

I'm not saying that they are all smart but when 70% of the kids have high GPAs from schools that are sending more than the minimum number of kids to TJ, a lot of[/quote]

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