Class Rank

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My school's ranks take from the whole county population to be ranked
Our rank turns out to be out of ~11,000</p>

<p>So being in the top 20 is like being the valedictorian out of a school that only ranks internally. Except it sucks that about 80% of the kids in the top 20 attend my school so it's hard to be the actual valedictorian :(</p>

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<p>The rankings at my school are bull
freshman year: GPA 95ish--> rank 8/211
sophmore year: GPA 97ish--> rank 7/211
junior year: GPA 99.66--> rank 4/211
senior year: GPA 100 yay!--> rank 4</p>

<p>I was tied for 4th with a girl junior year and now she is 2nd because she took art and I took band! makes me so angry!!! All the top ten kids are separated by 5/10 of a point though.</p>

<p>This is also pretty crazy: pretend ABCDEFGH are all the top 8 kids, in order, A being valedictorian:</p>

<p>grade 9: ranks: 1A 2BC 4D 5E 6F 7G 8H
grade 10 ranks: 1A 2B 3C 4E 5D 6F 7H 8G
grade 11 ranks: 1A 2C 3B 4FH 6D 7E 8G
grade 12 ranks: 1A 2F 3B 4H 5C 6D 7E 8G
That's some crazy shiftage! (if my little chart even makes sense)</p>

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<p>4.35/4.3 gives me 1/160. #2 has a little under 4.2, I believe, and after that it gets a lot closer.</p>

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<p>Pshap91: 5.0 is given for As in AP, honors, IB, college classes.</p>

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<p>96.6 weighted, good for 8th out of 119. I don't know my exact unweighted GPA, but it's roughly a 90. I happen to love my school's weighting system because there's a tiny bonus even for college prep courses: the final grades get multiplied by 1.05 for college prep classes, 1.1 for honors and 1.15 for AP.</p>

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<p>3.77 cum uw
4.77 weighted
5/255</p>

<p>weeeeeeeeeee.....</p>

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<p>3.8 UW</p>

<p>89/500ish</p>

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<p>We have about 2 4.0s and then there's a slight drop and a LOT of people in around the 10-3 range have really similar GPAs. We're a class of almost 600, so I guess that's expected.</p>

<p>I'll probably drop out of the top ten, but I don't really care about it any more. It mattered for colleges, but now it doesn't matter any more.</p>

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<p>question about class rank....
is it cumulative?</p>

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<p>This is really hard to compare with weighted GPAs. I know a girl who lives in Colorado who recieves a 5.0 in any AP class, regardless of her actual average.</p>

<p>The South Carolina Uniform Grading scale offers a 4.0 for a 93 in CP/TP courses, a 4.5 for a 93 in Honors and a 5.0 for a 93 in AP. </p>

<p>I have a 4.4 I think? I'm 12/300.</p>

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<p>How on earth can you take five AP courses a year? The maximum number of AP's you can take at my school is probably about 7 or 8 total, but most of the time that isn't possible due to scheduling conflicts.</p>

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<p>1/650 :)</p>

<p>how do your schools weight the grades...
because i only have 4.25 and ive taken 7 APs and never received a B?</p>

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<p>10/400</p>

<p>Weighted- 4.67
Unweighted- 3.95</p>

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<p>1/330ish ~ 4.0uw/4.444w</p>

<p>But #2 is super secretive about all her grades and won't tell her GPA even when I tell her mine. IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER ANYMORE!</p>

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<p>29/310 (I know, a failure, right?)
The past few years I've had ~3.4uw; this year I've got a 2.9 uw (but around a 4.0 w... I love AP classes)</p>

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<p>Class Rank depresses me, especially when it's at a unweighted school where AP classess are hard, but honors/regular classess are so easy that someone skipped literally [I'm being statistically specific] about a fourth of the classess, didn't make up the work, and still got a 97 in the honors class. </p>

<p>Thus, I'm ranked around 12%, but I'm as qualified for HYPS as my valedictorian or anyone of those lazy students in the top 5%. Pathetic.</p>

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<p>1/420<br>
4.0 Uw, 4.43w</p>

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<p>85/472. [Yes, I suck at life.]</p>

<p>And I agree with Infinite_Truth. It's worse at our school because everybody with a 4.0 or higher is number 1 and every class except for the honors/AP classes you show up and get an A. So I literally know somebody who takes all remedial classes and is ranked 1.</p>

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<p>Well, at the beginning of the year, I was co-ranked 3, actual rank 4 out of about 200. I think I may have bumped up to 3rd, straight up, but there's going to be a LOT of shifting in our top 10, and it's all a real crapshoot because of AP ranking versus students having lower scores in AP.</p>

<p>My school does not use the 4.0 scale for ranking, so the numbers that it comes down to are very close. At the beginning of the year, we had 2 students with a weighted, rounded 103, and 7 or so students with a weighted, rounded 102 (including myself).</p>

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<p>Does rank really matter that much to some of you?</p>