Students Above the Average GPA

List the students whose gpa is above the college-wide average gpa. Return first_name, last_name and gpa, sorted by gpa from highest to lowest, then last_name. Students with no gpa yet cannot be compared and are left out automatically.

Expected result:

+------------+-----------+------+
| first_name | last_name |  gpa |
+------------+-----------+------+
| Evelyn     | Park      | 3.98 |
| Sophia     | Rossi     | 3.92 |
| Grace      | Lee       | 3.88 |
| Mia        | Haddad    |  3.8 |
| Ava        | Patel     |  3.8 |
| Emily      | Zhang     | 3.72 |
| Charlotte  | Dubois    | 3.67 |
| Scarlett   | Johnson   |  3.6 |
| Harper     | Singh     | 3.55 |
| Zoe        | Campbell  |  3.5 |
+------------+-----------+------+
(showing 10 of 14 rows)

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