<p>Hi, I'm currently a Junior who has enrolled in the full IB Diploma programme, and I had some questions about rank.</p>
<p>Firstly, our school doesn't do proper ranks like most American schools do (they keep most of these details confidential). However, they do announce the top student in a class overall.</p>
<p>I know that last year I was ranked 1st out of about 60 kids, but today they did something unorthodox and they showed us an entire ranking of the class based on our first set of test results in our Junior year. I didn't do amazingly well on them, but I wasn't hugely fussed because I was told that they weren't very important. Nevertheless, my rank has dropped all the way down to 7th. I can admit that I'm taking one of the hardest combination of subjects that my school offers, whilst those ranked higher up had fairly easier subjects. But I feel worried that I've got from <5% to <20% in just one semester and wanted to know if this has much of an impact on college applications (I'm an international student).</p>
<p>I might sound a bit paranoid, but I'm just really disappointed that there's been such a huge drop in my performance (or my performance relative to classmates). Also, is our rank an average since 9th grade, or is it based solely on your class rank at the time which you submit the application?</p>
<p>If it matters, my test results were 7 Physics HL, 6 Math HL, 6 Econ HL, 7 Chemistry SL, 5 English A1 SL, 5 French B SL
Ouch at those 5's. They show up in my transcript under test results, but my actual transcript grades were 776 and 766 for HL and SL respectively.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>