<p>Hi. I just signed up for parchment and was looking at my transcript. I am in 9th grade, so I was just looking at this for a summer program. I hadn't really thought about class rank, I had just assumed they didn't do it at my school, but it said on my transcript my ranking is 3 out of 961. This is very good, but I'm just wondering, how exactly would one get higher grades than me? I have all A's, and I am taking the only AP class freshmen are allowed to take (AP Human Geography). So does that mean #1 and #2 are tied with me? Or what? Does the class rank count percent grades, or just letter grades?</p>
<p>In my school, class rank counts percent grades. They probably have better percent grades than you. If you were all tied, then all three of your ranks would report 1/961.</p>
<p>It varies by high school, but they’re either a) tied with you b) went around the system to take less standard classes and more honors/AP classes or c) had other circumstances (maybe they were homeschooled for awhile, who knows). In all honesty though, class rank will fluctuate a huge amount within the next three and a half years.</p>
<p>Ah, I see. Maybe percentage grades were being counted. I know that class ranking will change a lot the end of high school, I was just wondering. I had close to a B in Chemistry, so maybe that’s why.</p>
<p>Its almost always GPA based, but I think I know what happened. Probably the ones above you were able to take another AP class in addition to Human. Same thing happened to me, there was supposed to be a one AP limit as a freshman but some kids were able to pull strings with their counselors and get 2. Try talking to whoever is #1 and #2</p>
<p>Thanks hopefulRomanian, but I don’t know who they are!</p>
<p>For my district classes we took in eighth grade that contained high school credit were counted towards our high school GPA’s (for example I had speech, health, p.e., algebra 1, spanish 1, and some random electives). Also, as what other users have said, GPA isn’t usually based off just “is it an a or a b” in high school. A grade of 90-93, 94-97, and 97-100 all offer different gradepoints for my district, you should be able to find out this information on your district’s website.</p>