<p>At my school it's kind of funny. Theirs one student who's obviously waay academically smarter than everyone else, which is probably common in public schools.</p>
<p>I think it goes:</p>
<p>Rank 1- him - 4.73w gpa (out of 4.83)
Rank 2- Someone else - 4.33w gpa
Rank 3 - .... - 4.30w gpa</p>
<p>-The huge gap is really funny. He could probably get strait C's his senior year and still be rank one.</p>
<p>-anybody else have a huge gap like that between their number 1 and the rest?</p>
<p>My school is fairly competitive so I think there are a lot of geniuses lol. Two guys have a 5.0 GPA that i know of and next is like a 4.9..</p>
<p>no, my school (a private prep school in nyc) is divided into four "ranks":
1) Top Tier- smart, ultra elite intellectuals (maybe top 10 students)
2) Upper Middle Tier- these are the wealthy students with VERY good tutors, get good grades but seem grade-grubbing. they party a lot, and think money gets them places
3) Middle Tier- just run-of-the-mill private prep school student. nothing special
4) Lower Tier- unfortunately, this includes the economically disadvantaged (not all, but most ... i know this sounds really bad, but i dunno...), the lazy and/or people who just don't work </p>
<p>and i wasn't the one who came up with these - a teacher coined the terms.</p>
<p>so to answer your question, there is not a clear gap between individuals - rather between GROUPS</p>
<p>well its more of a gap between the top 3 and someone else</p>
<p>4.66
4.65</p>
<h2>4.61</h2>
<p>something like 4.52</p>
<p>not that big of a gap though. the top three are like realllly close together</p>
<p>i guess that kind of gap only shows up in average public schools.</p>
<p>YES, although as of right now the "genius" is tied for the number one spot, its painfully obvious that she is way above all of us, despite the already smart upper tier.</p>
<p>GPA doesn't determine genius. Tons of intelligent regular people can study their way to 4.0+ GPAs.</p>
<p>Why yes, there is. Her name is Snoop.</p>
<p>At my school, kids have crazy inflated GPAs. I'd have to say there are two guys that are possibly tied for #1. They are leagues above everyone else due to insane AP-intake (7 or 8 in one year). Perfect or near-perfect grades, too. I'd have to say that they probably screw everyone else over when it comes to college-application season next year..</p>
<p>I am that genius.</p>
<p>Yeah, and its sure as hell not me.</p>
<p>LOL. As am I. ;) The only thing is that I'm not going to be valedictorian (probably salut.) because someone gives up an EC to take another AP class. I'm like: Why would you do that?</p>
<p>So anyways, that brings about a .1 gap between ours. So maybe he is that genius kid? :)</p>
<p>my schedule next few years is horrendous - all IB classes + 4 more APs + ECs +... you get the picture (ultra competitive in the top 10 ranks of our public school)</p>
<p>Oops...Sorry for double post!</p>
<p>Yeah, there's this one guy who has a few classes with me who's uber smart. He somehow just GETS things, and can figure out stuff faster than most. Sadly enough, he isn't aware that ECs, etc. are (almost) necessary in college admissions, so all he's got going for him are straight As (though not recently; he told me he got a B for first-semester AP Spanish, in which I got an A, which made me happy 'cause I finally beat him in something lol).</p>
<p>The gap between #1 and #2 is pretty small here, I think.</p>
<p>My school's most intelligent aren't correlated to the GPA's. The hardest workers are at the top of the class, but the smartest individuals are just commonly known. There are about 4 that completely outclass everyone, and then a subset of about 14 that are above and beyond the rest of the top students. A natural curve follows.</p>
<p>Computergeek, stop assuming you will get straight As. You're only a freshman and can't be saying stuff like "I'm gonna not be valedictorian, or I'm gonna be salutorian". It's way too early to tell and Frosh year is much easier than anything else in HS.</p>
<p>Yes, my son has been that kid at schools for most of his life. I think it's less so now that he's at a more competitive school, but his SATs were several hundred points above everyone else's, he usually got higher grades, etc. He's had some B's and isn't perfect, mostly because he's "lazy brilliant". There are kids who work very hard and have GPA's as high or maybe higher, but well, they had to work hard for it. </p>
<p>I can't really say anything, because I was that kid when I was in high school, too.</p>
<p>PS: To be clear, it's not that he doesn't work hard, it's that he doesn't have to work hard in his HS classes to get A's -- he gets A's on tests and papers easily. To create more challenge, he asks for more difficult assignments, writes more complicated papers, does a lot of outside coursework and independent study.</p>
<p>Yes, there is this genius kid. 2380 on his SATs (aww...), is writing a novel for publication, and is in IPhO (international physics olympiad).</p>
<p>He doesn't talk much, but whenever he's called on (whether it be during math or english), he always makes extremely insightful comments.</p>
<p>"There are kids who work very hard and have GPA's as high or maybe higher, but well, they had to work hard for it."</p>
<p>And the tone suggests that they are somehow inferior? You didn't say this explicitly, but it really sounds like you're saying your kid is smarter than them simply in terms of natural talent. Last I checked, colleges don't like lazy geniuses, and I'm glad that they don't.</p>
<p>I saw your postscript, however your last statement wasn't edited, so I still made this post.</p>
<p>Oh ya.
She is the 'oh so perfect' person. A valedictorian, got 2360 on the SAT. Dates, active social life.</p>