I can also tell you that having a 3.45 overall composite GPA will put you in the top 15% of the class of 2021. That tells me that grade inflation is not rampant.
This is a subject that is very close to my heart. I was one of those cadets who walked the line of a 2.0 and go each semester. It was not from a lack of intelligence or effort I lacked the educational foundation to succeed in a strong college environment. I worked my butt off everyday of my life for four years to walk across the stage with my classmates at graduation.
I was one of those big fish in a small pond and was the coolest kid in school. I never opened a book in high school and then all of a sudden I was extremely ordinary.
Parents usually only talk about the great accomplishments of their cadets while the reality is that all cadets struggle at some point and many struggle the entire four years.
There's even less inflation than that for Class of 2022 as a 3.35 CPS will put in you the top 8.5%.
Someone asked earlier about the number of separations. For current Cows, class rankings as of July, 2018 were computed on a class size of 1229. At the next ranking as of the completion of AYT 2019-1 (7 February 2019), class size was listed as 1177. Thus, the current Cows class lost a total of 48 cadets over the course of 1 semester.
I believe they lost more than that if turn backs are included in this count? for instance, 1229-1177 = 52 cadets fewer in the class size (but if turn backs are now added back in/included in this current class size then there would have had to have been more separated that resulted in that 1177 number? correct?
I am not sure exactly how turn backs are counted in the process but I know of at least one cadet who was originally supposed to graduate a year earlier, however, he became a turn back due to injury so he would become part of the following year's class. So, if he is now included in that 1177 remaining class size number, for instance, that would mean that another cadet was actually separated as well to arrive at the same 1177 number? So, not sure how many turn backs there are on average but I would think the cadet separation number would be understated as a result?
Sorry, nice hurried math on my part adding 48 to 29 to come up with 77! I agree with the thought on the turn backs, which is why I said the class as a whole was down by the incorrect math number from the summer. I wondered how many turn backs might have been added. I also wondered as per the discussion on the thread whether someone might be moved back a class, but then catch back up with the class and be included in the number if that is really in fact possible.