<p>A girl I knew had about a 94 average in NYS after junior year. She was ranked 12/200.</p>
<p>She transferred to a school in SC and they took all of her “A” 's and converted them to 4.0. </p>
<p>She ended up ranked 2/600. Salutatorian. Ridiculous!</p>
<p>My daughter’s school now ranks based only on the four core subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies and English and they weight these according to college prep, Honors or AP. Band or Chorus doesn’t count against you, but doesn’t help either (for rank).</p>
<p>Problems I see are that many students choose different AP or College level Math, Science, and history courses but they count the same, and you could be a world class artist but it’s of no help to your rank, even though you’re taking the art, music, Photography, Computer Science, etc as a class.</p>