<p>Yeap. I agree.</p>
<p>that's a nice way of looking at it, choklit.</p>
<p>2300+ (1, me)
2200+ (3)</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with the posters above about valedictorians being bogus. My school ranks but I really wish it wouldn't. There's not really an accurate way of measuring the top student in a school based solely on high-school grades. Right now I'm second in my class and am taking 5 AP courses, the most rigorous available. The person ahead of me is taking 2 AP courses. At the end of this semester, I'll probably get passed by 2-3 students who are taking 0 AP courses because I'm in jeopardy of getting a B in AP English Lit and possibly AP Chem. I could sleep through the regular English classes and get an A, but those students who may pass me at the end of this semester would be lucky to get a C in the difficult AP Eng Lit class that I'm in. Because we don't have weighted grades at my school, I get penalized for challenging myself with tougher coursework.</p>
<p>However, if the school did take AP courses out of, say a 5.0 scale, it would merely become a race between top students to see who can complete the highest quantity of AP courses before graduation in attempt to capture the highest gpa. This method doesn't make much sense to me either. Under these circumstances, students are indirectly encouraged to take AP and honors classes instead of courses that in general interest them like band, chorus, or art, etc. Also, obviously when certain classes are weighted on a 5.0 scale, it is possible to have a gpa of >4.0. So with a gpa of >4.0, why would someone want to take a regular class that is graded on a 4.0 scale as it is guaranteed to lower that person's gpa, even if he/she gets an A in the class! </p>
<p>For instance, person A takes 5 AP courses, and that's it. Nothing else. Person B takes the same 5 AP classes and Band. AP courses are weighted on a 5.0 scale while regular classes like band are out of 4.0. Person A gets an "A" in every course as does Person B. Amazingly, Person A obtains an overall higher gpa than Person B even though Person B took the same five classes as person A plus band. Person B would have a weighted gpa of 4.83 while person A would have a 5.0. Is it really fair to penalize students for taking non-weighted courses?</p>
<p>All in all, class rank is a ridiculous and inaccurate method of measuring academic achievement in high school. There is no way to accurately measure a student's rank within his/her school, which is why I think class rank should be done away with in all high-schools. All it does is create unhealthy and unnecessary competition between students. But because many colleges require some sort of rank or estimate, I think that schools should only estimate a students rank to the nearest 5% of his or her class. This way, top 5% would be the highest rank a student can have, and the student could be anywhere from top 5% to the top student. I really believe that assigning students a number is not healthy, and assigning rank to the nearest 5% (top 10%, 15%, etc.) would eliminate competition between top students to get the #1 rank while allowing students to take the courses they desire to take. Also I think AP/honors courses should be weighted on a 4.2 scale because 5.0 is just too much and again penalizes students who don't take classes filled with AP/honors classes.</p>
<p>Yep, indeed valedictorian/class rank is a joke. People make a big deal of it at my school, but they don't realize how stupid it really is. My school has bad grade inflation and grades here sometimes only measure how well a student can kiss-ass. I honestly couldn't care less what rank I am as long as I get into my first choice university. On an interesting note, my school sent only one student to a top university last year (Northwestern), and he wasn't even in the top 10 of a class of less than 200.</p>
<p>My school's class of '09 doesn't have anyone over 2150. I'm certain my graduating class ('10) will be different, though... We have a lot of smart people. It's amazing (what was in the water when we were born in 1991-1992?).</p>
<p>I agree with what everyone else said about class ranking. The system at my school is completely wack. There was no weighting until junior year and very few people take hard classes, so there is insane grade inflation. Literally, after sophomore year there were like 15 people tied for #1. I got one B (3.8) and my rank dropped to #50. Then junior year I got a 4.0 and I moved up to #34, but I was still right outside the top 10% range. Ridiculous. Finally, after first quarter this year they started doing ranks by hand and actually weighting classes properly and I moved up to #1 and I'm tied with only a few people. LOL, so ridiculous. </p>
<p>Also, the highest scorers at my school barely manage to break the 1900 mark. Me and one other kid are the only ones with above a 2100. I think there's two others that have around a 2000 and they aren't even in the top 10. The kids I'm tied with for #1 have like 1800-1900 SAT scores...</p>
<p>2400 (at least 3 that I know of)
2300-2390 (at least 15+, probably more like 30+, including me)
2200-2290 Quite a number</p>
<p>Class size: 1,000
School type: Public (Singapore)</p>
<p>2300- none
2200- none
2100- none
2000 + - 1 (me)</p>
<p>The next highest comes in in the 1700's... and it's a grad class of 1000.. yeah, pretty self-explanatory.</p>
<p>i'm the val at my school....i have the highest SAT score and i've taken the hardest courseload available....am i still bogus? lol</p>
<p>pretty sure its like this:</p>
<p>2300-1:2320(me)
2200- none
2100-1: 2180
2000-prolly 2 or 3
1900-a bunch</p>