<p>I just witnessed the saddest moment of my life. The top 10 awards for my class was commencing and I found out that I wasn't in the to 10 for my graduating class. I have dropped rank from 3rd since junior year to 12 and I am extremely disappointed. The reason why I think I dropped is because I decide to take 8 classes my senior year and also decided to take ap chemistry which had a terrible teacher. Also because my English teacher had favoritism towards different student. All in all, complaining wont help me because it was part my doing. I also take blame and feel bad also.</p>
<p>Any advice you can give me? Words of encouragement. IM going to Boston college next year.</p>
<p>A week into September and college and you’ll never ever even think about this – probably for another 30 years until your own kids are HS seniors. Really. But also, why is your relative position with your peers so important to you? Get over it – you’re about to be a real live adult. Things like this are trivial. Trust me.</p>
<p>If this is the saddest moment of your life – you’re blessed.</p>
<p>Wow thanks that kinda made me feel better but all the work I did feels wasted and I feel that I let my self down and my goals are unnaccomplished.</p>
<p>mohamed: you’re about to be freshman at a great school. I promise you, by Thanksgiving break, you’ll have forgotten the names of most of your HS chums. The radical world view shift is that extreme. You’ve worked very hard and the reward is how prepared you’ll be to absorb all that college will give you. Enjoy your summer and ignore the HS grad thing.</p>
<p>I think I was 10th or 12th. Didn’t know. Didn’t care. My school didn’t weight GPA anyway. I went to an HYP college. A few went to UPENN. I think only one of them had a higher rank than me. I was happy for all the top students. I wasn’t comparing myself to them and hoped they all did well.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, no one will probably ever ask you your HS GPA or SATs or class ranking again for the rest of your life. How about dem apples?</p>
<p>What is the GPA difference between 10th and 12th? .001? Really, two points on a homework assignment in February? It could honestly be that minute. Ranking at the tippy top relies just as much on someone else choking as you holding steady. You can do all the right things, but you can’t control the other person, your rank can still change. It really is so trivial and meaningless in the long run. It makes no difference in what you learned, in the school you will attend, and what your potential is.</p>
<p>Enjoy your graduation. Don’t give this a second thought! Congratulations and best of luck to you!! :)</p>