UCLA hasn't ranked its students since 1970. Nevertheless, since everything is graded on the curve, you might reasonably wonder how you did relative to your peers.

I kinda figured it out. Grades in each class were given out 20% A, 60% B and 20% C. There's no stipulation for how many + and - grades within each tier so we leave those off, those rounding errors will tend to even out. Then we assume the grades were randomly distributed -- a little bit of error there too since consistent performance is more likely.

In my section, crim was 4 units (compared to 5 for torts and civpro) so its effect on GPA is proportionately underweighted. But you take your grades, find which row you're on, and the rank tells you approximately where you are as a percentage from the top. If the row doesn't have a value, go to the next one down; it means the GPAs are tied and thus there's no way to distinguish them.

civpro	torts	crim	GPA	prob	rank
A	A	A	4.00	0.8%	0.8%
A	A	B	3.71	2.4%	3.2%
A	B	A	3.64	2.4%	
B	A	A	3.64	2.4%	8.0%
A	A	C	3.43	0.8%	8.8%
A	B	B	3.36	7.2%	
B	A	B	3.36	7.2%	23.2%
A	C	A	3.29	0.8%	
B	B	A	3.29	7.2%	
C	A	A	3.29	0.8%	32.0%
A	B	C	3.07	2.4%	
B	A	C	3.07	2.4%	36.8%
A	C	B	3.00	2.4%	
B	B	B	3.00	21.6%	
C	A	B	3.00	2.4%	63.2%
B	C	A	2.93	2.4%	
C	B	A	2.93	2.4%	68.0%
A	C	C	2.71	0.8%	
B	B	C	2.71	7.2%	
C	A	C	2.71	0.8%	76.8%
B	C	B	2.64	7.2%	
C	B	B	2.64	7.2%	91.2%
C	C	A	2.57	0.8%	92.0%
B	C	C	2.36	2.4%	
C	B	C	2.36	2.4%	96.8%
C	C	B	2.29	2.4%	99.2%
C	C	C	2.00	0.8%	100.0%

20 Jan 05