<p>I go to a school for talented and gifted students, and the class of 2014 has 65 students. It is highly competitive. I heard a girl with a 3.99/4.00 gpa didn't even get the title of valedictorian. Should I be worried about not getting in the top 25%? I want to go to MIT.</p>
<p>Somewhat off topic, but I HATE HATE HATE people who use class rank as a barometer for intelligence. No, being in the top 10 of a public HS class does not make you smart, it means that you grind and care more than the smart kids. Jesus this grinds me.</p>
<p>Or it means you value accomplishment, and are thus far more intelligent than anyone with a good test score and lousy work ethic.</p>
<p>^
Nah bro. Just nah.</p>
<p>Anyone using class rank alone to judge one’s intelligence needs a reality check. Especially considering that intelligence manifests itself in a variety of ways.</p>
<p>I hate when people pull the class rank crap. Especially at my school in the hallways and at lunch: What’s your class rank? “So what’s YOUR class rank”. I get so annoyed. You’re fine, just keep on working harder.</p>
<p>I am the ultimate, the alpha, the lord and master of the class of 2012 at my high school. Kneel before my academic prowess. Would you be so bold as to approach my throne without a summons? Watch, and be amazed, as I unsheathe my report card, and rain down upon you a fury of A’s like none among your ancestors have ever witnessed. </p>
<p>I am the champion of advanced classes so technical and complicated that their true name requires seven mouths to speak and eighteen ears to hear. In your tongue…they are called AP. And when the day comes when I stand before my peers in the hall of the graduates, no doubt the administrators will at last recognize my unrivaled abilities. They will call me forward to the podium, and I will sing the song that ends the earth…</p>
<p>guys, can we stop with going off-topic? none of this answers the OP’s question</p>
<p>Look again! The answer is there, for those who dare seek it…</p>
<p>saying that class rank isn’t a good measure of intelligence doesn’t tell anyone how the OP’s class rank will matter to MIT</p>
<p>Look, if MIT doesn’t have admissions guys who know your school inside and out, who know exactly what rank at your school means compared to rank at other schools, then either they’ve gotten lazy or your school isn’t nearly as good as it’s supposed to be. Relax. </p>
<p>Value accomplishment, value talent, do the best you can at whatever you choose to do-- whether that’s having fun, studying, saving children from African sharks, whatever-- and it won’t matter either way. You’ll have something far more valuable than a 4.0 from MIT. Luckily, that’ll probably mean you’ll be accepted to MIT as well, but really, that’s just incidental.</p>
<p>@Rusty84: Laziness is an unattractive habit and a great barometer for the density of one’s head. Rank/(Proclaimed)Intelligence closely approximates laziness.</p>
<p>I bet rusty has a pretty low rank. It’s ok to not be on top mwahahah</p>
<p>You go to a school for talented and gifted and every top college you apply to will know this. Your class rank is taken in the context of the reputation of your school because they know that top 10% at a highly competitive school is much better than top 10% at an unknown school. You should look at what sort of schools people in previous years with your credentials got in to.</p>
<p>LOL @ Wiscongege…that was just fantastic :D</p>
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<p>I agree with JimboSteve. People that are proclaim themselves to be smart yet show lousy work ethic demonstrate a form of incompetence. If you want to prove yourself to be intelligent, please at least pretend to act like it.</p>
<p>There’s these kids that have this superiority complex. I’m curious to see how far that’s going to get them in the real world.</p>
<p>Since I love formulas, I’ll try it out. I’m 23rd out of a class of ~670. For reference, I would judge my school as “fairly competitive”. On a scale of 10, I would say that it’s an 8-. As you may observe, my estimated intelligence quotient score is the denominator.</p>
<p>23/110 = ~0.209</p>
<p>In liberal terms, the lower the better. However, this formula is easily disproved when extremely high IQ scores are paired with extremely high (low) class rankings.</p>
<p>For example,</p>
<p>600/140 = ~4.286
600/160 = 3.75</p>
<p>This would imply that the individual more closely approximating the expected performance (600/140) is “more lazy” than the individual that hugely deviates (600/160) from the expected result! </p>
<p>In all honesty, I agree that class rank isn’t a good indicator of intelligence.</p>
<p>I just peed myself laughing.</p>