Everyone on here seems to be in the top 10%. Is that even possible?

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<p>What percentage of your class do you estimate takes AP classes?</p>

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<p>About the same 30-60 people are in all the AP classes I’ve ever taken, so I’d say about 20%.</p>

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<p>Top 10% has a lot of meaning.</p>

<p>A guy taking easy classes to get in top 10%.</p>

<p>A guy taking very hard classes but not in top 10%, and vice versa.</p>

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<p>^At my school you can’t be in top 10% if you take easy classes because ranks are weighted.</p>

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<p>^At my school you can. Which is why I despise people who take regular classes with straight A’s (4.0) in top 10%.</p>

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<p>School doesn’t rank, but I imagine I would be in the top 10% if it did.</p>

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<p>I’d say about 20% of my school takes AP classes, but on the other hand it depends quite a bit on the class in question- the students taking AP Music Theory are not the students takign AP Psychology are not the students taking AP Physics, for the most part.
Also, my school ranks using the weighted GPA, so the 20% estimate of AP kids would likely be the top 20% in the class as well.</p>

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<p>In my school, the difference in weight between Honors and AP classes is .05, so there are a few Honors kids who sneaked into the top 25, much to the AP kids dismay. =/</p>

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<p>Colleges aren’t fooled by phony high class ranks that are gained by taking easy courses. Challenge yourself with your courses in high school, and you will be all right in the admission process. </p>

<p>To the point of the thread title, by no means all of the College Confidential participants claim to be in the top 10 percent of their classes (examples have already appeared in the replies above, I think). But very likely College Confidential disproportionately attracts voluntary participation by college-bound high school students who try to gain good grades in high school, rather than by students who are in the bottom of their high school classes.</p>

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<p>I hope so. My school’s weighting system is pretty different, as the highest gpa you could get if you took all the hardest classes available since freshman year is 4.2 or so. Very low weight compared to other schools. I hope they consider that =/</p>

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<p>I would say about 15-20% of the students in my class take AP courses. In a class of 106, I am ranked 26th, and I will graduate with the highest number of AP courses taken. I am personally not a fan of class rank, because I know for a fact that their are students ahead of me in ranking who have never taken an AP or have taken less than I am taking this year alone. It also means very little to me, because it is in no way a representation of my intelligence of academic potential. With an ACT score of 32, i have the second highest in my class. I would easily consider myself one of the five most intelligent students in my class, but class rank disagrees. I think class rank is bogus.</p>