<p>I wonder what that is like.</p>
<p>Knowing you are 900/900.</p>
<p>Always has to be a last place.</p>
<p>Lol, I doubt that the person in last place would very much care about their rank...</p>
<p>I wouldn't know, but I'd say from what I've seen the last ranked person probably doesn't care (I sometimes hang out with one of, if not the "dumbest" guy in our school). He's probably nonchalant about it; academics isn't his thing. I don't make friends based on academics so. </p>
<p>I'm not high ranked though (I have three C+'s now, yes, I know you all A+'s are shocked), so I sometimes feel stupider, but meh, it's not like I care after a while. Some people are simply meant for different things.</p>
<p>Yeah generally someone that low on the rankings would not know that rankings exist or that he is lowest on them, because they are on a different plane people who crack open a book once in a while.</p>
<p>When I was a freshman this senior I knew for a prank hacked into the rankings (which school doesnt reveal to anyone but colleges) and posted them up on our meeting hall. It was just amazing to see the turmoil that unfolded.</p>
<p>I don't think that the person ranked last even knows about this unfortunate fact.</p>
<p>but what if that person was an mental overachiever? lol at irony</p>
<p>^ It simply won't happen unless you go to an uber-competitive school in which the last-ranked person would easily be #1/2 in any other public high school.</p>
<p>The average or even Above average public/private school level is fairly low in the USA so that if you have that kind of mentality, you'd be at least in the middle and more likely far above average.</p>
<p>My boyfriend was number 467/468. He didn't care, he just wanted to know who had a lower GPA than he did.</p>
<p>^ and I could be wrong but I remember you saying you had like 6000 kids at your school, so um, that number doesn't seem to work out. Unless I'm missing something here...</p>
<p>I don't think they'd be the sort that would care or probably even know their rank.</p>
<p>thank god my school doesn't have rankings</p>
<p>@ Invoyable -- 468 in her class... 6000 in her school... it makes sense that the senior class would be the smallest; that's how most schools are. Maybe a lot of people drop out or whatever. OR maybe he didn't go to her school?!</p>
<p>My friend is probably ranked last in the class, or somewhere near it... he's very very smart but just doesn't do his work. His cumulative GPA is somewhere under 1. People think he's dumb because he fails classes... when we got the results of our sophomore year PSAT, some girls who were kinda stuck-up and of mediocre intelligence (the type that tries really hard and does okay in sorta hard classes) were like, "So what did you get on your PSAT?~~~" and he was like, "195" (or something like that) which shut them up, 'cause they didn't do nearly that well. XD</p>
<p>I go to the same school as romanigyspsyeyes. We have three schools on one campus, with 2000 students per school, approximately. Rankings are done by school, even though the three schools are really more like one.</p>
<p>I doubt the last person cares, they probably don't even know.</p>
<p>He or she would have failed so many classes that it's lucky for them to be still enrolled in school.</p>
<p>Some ppl care A LOT. but it's more fun when you fight to the top, get to the top 10 or something. I graduated from HS already, but one time I happened to pass by the administrative building to pick up an unofficial copy of my final transcript, just to see how i did in the 8th and final semester and confirm my rank. In 9th grade i ranked as low as 10. Later on, I was always ranked either 2nd or 3rd, but if you round up the GPA to the tenth place, i ended up co-valedictorian or salutatorian otherwise if you carry the decimal to more places. </p>
<p>Anyway, I saw the employee print out and prepare another student's transcript , the rank was printed clearly as something like 489/490 and that unfortunate student had straight F's and a few D's but somehow made it to senior year and graduation.</p>
<p>Invoyable, there are three high schools on our campus. We only rank within our individual schools. 3 high schools = 6,000 kids, = 2,000 kids per school. Roughly 500 per class. </p>
<p>Yeah, it's kind of complicated. But really it's one school that has three different schools on the same campus. But like I said, we're only ranked with kids in our home school, even though we go to classes at all different schools. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>EDIT: Whoops, proletariat2 explained it. And he did make it to his senior year (just barely enough credits), but did not graduate. He would've had to go another full year. Oh well.</p>
<p>At most public schools the person ranked the lowest is usually a complete stoner or a gang leader. At my school he's both.</p>
<p>^
At my school the top 20-10, about 80% of them are stoners, so... Lol.</p>
<p>The ones that come to school so high get so good grades.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure my school ranks and does not give out the rankings except on Naviance and you only know your own. How else would you know you're like 5th smartest in your grade or w/e?</p>