<p>I'm a rising junior, but this past summer after long research and discussion with fellow classmates, I've become absolutely disgusted at the state of class-rank at my high school. At my school, only 4 people who take AP classes are in the top 10% of the class, while the rest of the top 10% are composed of people who take all college-prepatory (not even honors!) classes who skim off with a 4.0 while we AP kids lag behind with 3.6's-3.9's and aren't included in the top 10%, which is a part just as vital as the SAT's for elite-college admissions. Frankly this year I'm thinking of starting a school-wide campaign to convince the adminisration to abolish this abominatin, but I'm worried that 'if' it suceeds, would colleges ban me for interfering so closely with the admissions process in having my school abolish class rank? (This is hypothetical) any comments would be great, thanks</p>
<p>No weighting?</p>
<p>No weighting for grades or rank (underfunded public)</p>
<p>The main reason is frankly that most of my high-course-rigor classmates ARE Ivy-league material even by CC Standards in all their other ways (SAT, EC's, Awards, etc.), from harvard legacies to regional club governors, but the only thing preventing us all from having a good chance at ivies are our class rank which floats around top 15% for us. And in general class rank has been proven to hurt our entire student body, of which in the past only the top 10% goes to universities ranked in the top 100.</p>
<p>WOOT!</p>
<p>Same situation(somewhat), no weighting, so of our 3 kids at the top we have 2 morons and a genius.</p>
<p>same situation, and because of it I am in the bottom half. ugh.</p>
<p>My school got rid of this system for that reason - well, also, that is harbors a competitive atmosphere and discourages socialization (in their opinion). I think it is a great idea. Go for it. I don't think colleges will even know you did it.</p>
<p>Absolutely go for it. One of the schools in my area stopped ranking recently (I think this is the first year they're doing it). Instead, they recognize the top students with honors - summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude. It seems like a good way to recognize relative achievement without the insanity of rankings.</p>
<p>Rather than trying to abolish ranking maybe you should try to get it weighted.</p>
<p>Yeah, try get weighting for Honours/AP courses.</p>
<p>That's BS. How can you not weight AP grades? In my school getting A's in AP classes are rare. Usually only 1 or 2 MAX get A's in each AP class. Not fair, do what you got to do.</p>
<p>I know exactly how you feel. It SUCKS!</p>
<p>Go for it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained</p>
<p><em>thanking my school since they don't have class rank</em></p>
<p>Btw, what's summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude? Are those American awards?</p>
<p>i'd definitely ry and get them to change, but don't be surprised if they don't. instead, ask to see a copy of your schools profile and see if it has how many people are taking APs, honors, etc.
my school recently changed from wieghted to uw. all of the honors kids in my class freaked out. so they made it start for the freshman class, who know nothing about class rank and the college admission process. pretty sneaky.</p>
<p>WOW</p>
<p>that sucks big time!</p>
<p>You guys should have it like my school where what we do is you're given an unweighted rank and a weighted rank. You then take the best rank or w.e. To determine Valedictorian and Salutatorian, we do weighted.</p>
<p>That's how it should be for all schools that want class rank.</p>
<p>Schools that don't rank are usually ranked by the adcoms using the secondary school academic profile anyway, so there is a point of reference regardless if schools rank or not.</p>
<p>FYI most top schools recalculate GPAs using the formula they want to use ... they will also ask schools for their profile which explains their grading and ranking systems ... so hopefully schools will see that you took the toughest courses available and did very well (and see how the class rank does not reflect the difficulty of the courses).</p>
<p>^ agree, but the top schools seem mostly to expect at least people who take APs and stuff still remain in the top 10% with their slightly lower grades, but at my school the easy-course-taking for gpa-boosting has simply got out of hand o_O</p>
<p>ill think about it some more and I might have one of the student-body related clubs im an officer in (Student Goverment, Young Democrats) do some campaign about it this year</p>
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Help, please..</p>