<p>Does Duke calculate class rank for its students? If so....does it create competition (unhealthy competition, that is...lol) among students?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes it calculates rank. No, I don't get the impression that people care about their specific rank. Those that pay attention to it just seem to want to have a general idea of where they are compared to the rest of their class.</p>
<p>Yes, rank is calculated. No, I don't know what my rank is, and I'd bet the vast majority of Duke students would need to look theirs up for you if you asked.</p>
<p>I'm 15th</p>
<p>haha, kidding. I'm 10th.</p>
<p>Oh man, I crack myself up. I agree with what has been said, though. I only look at class rank to see what percentage of the class I'm in, and even that doesn't really matter to me. I'm shooting for top third, and the only reason I have that goal is because I was deferred and feel like I would be proving myself (at least to myself) if I could achieve that.</p>
<p>Yea, I've never heard anyone discuss their rank. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who even knows theirs i think. The top third are the ones on the Dean's list, if anyone actually cares about that.</p>
<p>rank? 3/25 is that like bad????
and I am in a chinese local school way competitive</p>
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<p>Heh, I know my rank offhand. :p I don't discuss it though. As long as I stay top 5% (aiming for summa cum laude) I don't care.</p>
<p>To: Happyjanezhang</p>
<p>We are talking about our rankings at Duke, not high school. Sorry.</p>
<p>To: bananainpajamasrunningdownthestairs</p>
<p>Congrats! Way to keep it up during your first year</p>
<p>I asked my brother (rising senior) this question. He agrees that nobody talks about it and rarely gives it a concern. BUT, he says that rank changes hugely from end of fresh year to end of soph year. Some freshmen get inflated rank from an easier focus program, or a philsophy of using freshman year to shop and get adjusted (not a bad idea) where others jump right in using multiple APs to advance in rigor or are engineers. First group may have higher rank at end of first year, with the second group trailing, but by end of second year the groups may have reversed or evened out. You can't really tell until after junior year, but anyone with manners would not discuss it. Just his opinion.</p>
<p>I was totally going to say something along the lines of scribbler...also, at the end of 1st semester freshman year, your rank is only based on 4 grades and at the end of the year it's only based on 8 or 9. There's probably a considerable amount of people who have the same grades when you're working with so few of them, so the difference in "rank" between someone with a 3.31 and a 3.32, for example, might be much more pronounced than it would be 3 years later. Ya know? Personally, I saw my rank, but it was moreso because I was bored and looking through the ACES categories and went "Oh...so they calculate that? Okay." I mean, people certainly don't talk about it...ESPECIALLY not in a competitive way...it's just...why would you? What would you even say...bring it up over dinner, saying something like "Oh so by the way, I'm ranked 500th, what about all of you?" I think that maybe I talked about the concept ONCE with a friend, neither of us knew our exact ranks off the tops of our heads (just a general idea like "top half" or "top quarter" or something), and we only talked about it because we were both laughing about how much we suck at life and how most of the rest of our class is doing better than us...and then we started talking about basketball or something. Yeah. It's really not a big deal.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! Good to know class rank at Duke isn't anything like the crap that goes on with high school rank...</p>
<p>Well, HS grades matter for college admissions, while coursework and type of major is more important in college grades I'd envision</p>
<p>For example, a Culural Anthropology major with a 3.9 isn't competing for an Ibanking or consulting internship with a 3.6 Econ major, so class rank isn't really relevant</p>
<p>wait, so they tell you your percentile, like top 9th percentile?</p>
<p>or do they give you a numeric rank, like 518/1650</p>
<p>Numeric...and you're only compared to people in the same school as you (e.g. Trinity or Pratt).</p>