<p>I just had a discusion about this at school. Some kid said Class Rank is based on GPA. But a number of kids feel its based on QPA which is basically weghted GPA. it doesn't make since for a student to be ranked higher because they get straight A's in basic classes. When a student is getting B's and C's and they're taking Honors and AP classes. what do you think?</p>
<p>I thought all schools did weighted GPAs. There would be too many people tied for valedictorian if it were unweighted, and plus as you said it would be unfair.</p>
<p>My school uses weighted GPA. I think it'd be kind of weird for a school to use unweighted, cuz like you said, that'd be unfair...</p>
<p>My school doesn't weight.</p>
<p>My school does it by weight. But regular kids still get screwed over because only TAG kids can take the amount of AP classes that they can. The rest of us have to take honors pre-req courses which don't get weighting. However, anybody with a 4.0 or higher is val at my school.</p>
<p>My school doesn't weight, we just got rid of class rank (thank god, since UW class rank is a joke), and we don't even have vals or sals. All we have is an Honors Diploma is you get 6 AP credits, gold cord for GPA above 3.9, and silver cord for GPA 3.75-3.89. I wish we just had weighted grades and weighted class rank like everyone else.</p>