<p>I'm 1 out of something like 600. 5.45 weighted? Or maybe 5.54. Idk.</p>
<p>At my school, 100 in AP/honors=6.0, 90 in AP/honors=100 in regular=5.0, 90 in regular=4.0</p>
<p>Two A- have put me at a 3.99, which is, I believe, 8/450. It's a little ridiculous though, because the two A- have come from the college classes I'm taking (at one of the top 20 private schools in the country) and I don't get any weighting/extra points for it.</p>
<p>I'm Top 40 (not sure what exactly, it fluctuates a lot) out of 840.</p>
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<p>Haha nope I was being sarcastic. I would not've known my class rank if they hadn't given us our transcripts at registration.</p>
<p>Cummulatively I have a 4.135 but I got a 4.7 first semester junior year. I'm the val at my school.</p>
<p>Rank comes up very often in my school. Before we'd talk about it casually after we got our final reports. See, at the start of the year, they'd give us our final transcripts from the year before to see if there were mistakes or so that we could see if we passed everything. So it'd just come up like, "Oh cool you're top ten." But now it's gotten a loooooot different. The competition has gotten fierce. My friend was called in to talk about something and he saw the ranking list. He told one person and by lunch, everyone knew who was in the top ten.</p>
<p>Rank is everything now. Everyone is obssessing over it so much, especially the people in the top ten since they don't want to lose their spot. But anyway, I have a 4.68 unweighted and the highest in my class is around a 4.9 or so. My rank is 10 out of 459, but I expect to be at least 9 by the end of the year. I have an unweighted 4.0 also.</p>
<p>4.53 Weighted 1/400
3.90 Unweighted 40/400 </p>
<p>A lot of lazy people just take easy classes and ace them while I fill my schedule with AP's and get a B here or there.</p>
<p>1/707 (4.76 / 5)</p>
<p>But it's about to drop because I gave up on school after I got into college.</p>
<p>Where did you get in?</p>
<p>Duke. </p>
<p>If ranks came out right now, I think I'd technically be 4th. But that's because my school ranks GPA weird this last semester for "graduation" purposes.</p>
<p>6/368 with a 4.18 weighted.</p>
<p>I wish my school would grade weird the last semester. XD</p>
<p>Our school wieghts athlete's GPA's more than non-athletes which sucks b/c due to an ankle injury I can't play sports so I'm only 6/233 but the class has grown so its probably more like 6/240. But its still a decent rank.</p>
<p>Really? My school only weights if you take AP or Honors. You get more points for taking them. That's the only thing it does.</p>
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<p>Is that even LEGAL?</p>
<p>1/844</p>
<p>4.63 Weighted</p>
<p>Honestly, rank does matter a lot to people who intent on applying to really prestigious universities (The Ivies, the top 20 or so colleges, etc.) because these colleges DO consider your rank when deciding whether or not you will be accepted. They say that "it's the best way to see how well you did in the context of your school"; some schools use the 4.0 scale, some use the 100 scale, some have weighted GPAs and some don't. And since they receive applicants from various schools that have different GPA systems, converting the GPAs would be really hard for admissions committees to do. So they just use your rank to see how well you did in your school. So rank is important and it can be really upsetting if you work really hard but end up with a not so high rank, because that can really impact your application!</p>
<p>That's a really good way to look at it.</p>
<p>Colleges don't deny they use rank in their admissions process. It's just that rank isn't the best way to determine how intelligent someone is. In some schools around Houston, there can be as many as 20 or 30 "valedictorians" simultaneously because the course selection is limited or easy or both. </p>
<p>Take it from me, class rank isn't the best way to rank accomplishment. I'll be the first and say that I probably didn't "deserve" the rank as much as a few others in my class (people that study more, or are naturally more intelligent with higher A's). I get by with a few low A's while other people never get below a 96, but since an A counts for the same regardless at my school, I got the coveted #1 because of my superior class planning.</p>
<p>In my opinion, since class ranks are relative to a number of changing variables, it's not as accurate and thus not as weighted in the college process. That doesn't mean that it isn't considered. Just, in most cases it's not the deciding factor.</p>
<p>so glad my school doesn't rank. do college admissions officers take each school's grading policy into account? </p>
<p>i know of a school which automatically adds 8 to all students' grades regardless of level, meaning an 82 is an A. i hate gpa calculation. in my school 95-100 is 4.0, 90-94 is 3.75. most of my grades are, sadly, 94 or 93.</p>