What does the last part of this abstract mean?
Hello, here is an abstract :

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

Can you please explain to me what the last sentence says? Was the speaker one of those 10% whose grades were as low as possible?

Thank you in advance!

Question

What does the last part of this abstract mean?
Hello, here is an abstract :

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

Can you please explain to me what the last sentence says? Was the speaker one of those 10% whose grades were as low as possible?

Thank you in advance!

Answer

I agree with Mike. This is not a natural-sounding English passage.

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Yes, you're right:
Students who did well in law school can say ''I graduated in the top 10% of my class'' and remaining 90% are the students who made this possible.
By saying ''graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible'' the narrator means that she/he graduated in the lowest 10% of her/his class, and wasn't even in the remaining 90%.

p.s. я не носитель языка

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It means they were in the bottom 10%

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Hi, yes your interpretation is correct.. the extract is not written very well, and almost definitely not written by a native speaker.

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