<p>some kid is transferring over to our high school for his senior year. he's also an overachieving honors student.</p>
<p>his grades are probably measured on the 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>ours isn't measured on a diff scale. my gpa is 97.6 (100.07 weighted) or something right now.</p>
<p>if he get's a 4.0 GPA at his old school or like a 3.9 or like ANYTHING, then it could be potentially higher than mine, right? i mean, this isn't fair. our scales are different. would the schools calculate it so that it's fair? cuz i mean, a 4.0 at his school could be from a 97- 100. would they just decide to convert it to 100 once he gets to my school?</p>
<p>cuz i am 2nd in class. i don't want him to bump me out of 2nd in class. what if he gets 1st in class or 2nd in class or something? i'll be 3rd in class instead. i've worked so hard. i will be so mad if i don't get what i deserve.</p>
<p>lol he probably did also. another thing: your school won't automatically convert a 4.0 to a 100 gpa. what i assume they'll do is look at his grades from all of his classes and recalculate his GPA based on the scale out of 100.</p>
<p>There are plenty of things in the world that you should lose sleep over and consider yourself screwed by. Needless to say this is not even close to being one of them.</p>
<p>i understand why this bothers you....but most colleges won't really see a difference between 2nd and 3rd. either is tremendously impressive. but i do get why you're worried, i would probably be acting the same way. my school doesn't rank, however (my class has 50 kids so it would be meaningless)</p>
<p>Colleges don't care too much about the difference between #2 and #3, probably because of random unpredictable things like this. And your high school will probably know he's a transfer student, and react accordingly. (At my school, for instance, there was a rule that said you were only eligible for valedictorian/salutatorian if you'd spent at least a certain number of years in the district).</p>
<p>If you're really that worried about it, you could always just introduce him to NetHack. :D</p>
<p>You are screwed no matter what; it doesn't matter if he bumps you out or not. You aren't first, and everyone knows that theres only 1 winner and everyone else is a loser... </p>
<p>dude, just do your best. if he gets higher than you, mourn your loss for a day or two, then geton with your life with whatever college you get into. Forget about it, because if he did get higher than you , then he worked harder than you - it's as simple as that.
There's a dunb saying that goes: you reep what you... whatever, i don't remeber. but you get the point.</p>
<p>Rank really isn't everything.... it's your GPA that matters. On most applications, you write down YOUR GPA and then the highest GPA in the class, so that colleges can compare (unless I'm completely making that up... but I'm pretty sure that I saw it!) the two GPAs. Sometimes a tiny, tiny amount separates the two. As long as your GPA is good, you'll be FINE!</p>
<p>Here's a little story about how stupid ranks are: Two years ago, a girl was val for all four years of high school. She stayed on top EVERY semester... no one ever topped her... UNTIL she went on the Spanish exchange. When she came back, she missed one homework assignment (not even a graded one. At the end of the quarter, some teachers just give out homework grades: x/50 or something. She missed one homework grade, so it slipped to 49/50). Her grade was readjusted, and the loss of that ONE POINT bumped her to an 'A' in that class instead of an A+. If she had the A+, she would've stayed val. But, because it became an A, she was bumped down to sal. Hopefully, that shows how stupid ranks are!</p>