<p>Sometimes on CC I'll see someone with a 4.0 UW GPA and a class rank of like, 15/300 or whatever. That's pretty shocking to me--at my school, among students who take all Honors/AP courses, only about 4-5 people (class size 500) get straight As throughout high school. In the past 5 years, maybe one or two people had a 4.0. </p>
<p>We're a public school, btw. We send about 10 to the Ivies every year. </p>
<p>What is it like in your school? How many people get 4.0s every year?</p>
<p>At least like 10-15% or so.</p>
<p>a lot. since over here 89.5+ is a 4.0. But we're a pretty competitive school so like (30+ to top 15 schools)...but yeah the weighted GPA makes the difference. Plus we have no class rank.</p>
<p>Everyone. Most people take APs.</p>
<p>=v. competitive.</p>
<p>I have a 3.938 unweighted GPA and class rank 22/548.
92.5 or above is an A (and yes, the three B's I've gotten were between 90% and 92%'s lol).</p>
<p>Very few people maintain a 4.0 unweighted GPA. Probably around 20 make it through sophmore year, and then they start dropping like flies during junior year. Only the most hardcore kids get a 4.0 unweighted with a very rigorous courseload. </p>
<p>I used to be insane about getting all A's until I got a B halfway through my junior year and now I sort of lost a lot of my motivation.</p>
<p>UW 4.0? In my grade it's just me and the #1.
Some classes go by without anyone getting the coveted 4.0 UW GPA.
In fact, if you actually do make it all the way till graduation, you get your name on this plaque that has been around since the school started.
I'm hanging on by the tip of my fingernails :O</p>
<p>I have a 3.95 and I'm like, 40th in the class. :-S</p>
<p>Our school hands out A's. It's not that it's competitive at all, it's that the general classes are SOOOOOOO easy. I got A-'s in my AP classes, which put me below all the kids who got A's in general classes. Which I think is, frankly, unfair. Because I wanted to challenge myself, I get put lower in the class rank. Psh. But I'm over it. Colleges will like my plethora of AP classes over kids who took generals their entire high school years. : ) I'm being optimistic here.</p>
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Our school hands out A's. It's not that it's competitive at all, it's that the general classes are SOOOOOOO easy. I got A-'s in my AP classes, which put me below all the kids who got A's in general classes. Which I think is, frankly, unfair. Because I wanted to challenge myself, I get put lower in the class rank. Psh. But I'm over it. Colleges will like my plethora of AP classes over kids who took generals their entire high school years. : ) I'm being optimistic here.
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Mine's similar to this; my school's a fairly decently competitive school, with honors/AP fairly tough but the general classes are a joke to get A's.</p>
<p>So therefore we have quite a bit of A's, from what I know. All A's is probably 5~10% or lower of the entire class (because we have so many people in our grade...)</p>
<p>"Our school hands out A's. It's not that it's competitive at all, it's that the general classes are SOOOOOOO easy. I got A-'s in my AP classes, which put me below all the kids who got A's in general classes. Which I think is, frankly, unfair. Because I wanted to challenge myself, I get put lower in the class rank. Psh. But I'm over it. Colleges will like my plethora of AP classes over kids who took generals their entire high school years. : ) I'm being optimistic here. </p>
<p>Mine's similar to this; my school's a fairly decently competitive school, with honors/AP fairly tough but the general classes are a joke to get A's.</p>
<p>So therefore we have quite a bit of A's, from what I know. All A's is probably 5~10% or lower of the entire class (because we have so many people in our grade...)"</p>
<p>As with mine</p>
<p>A lot of people got A's. most didn't.
I'd say 35-40 people had 4.0's at graduation. We didn't send anyone to an Ivy this year. I think one person went to one last year. However, the school is easy and public and filled with easy courses. I had friends taking things like dance, cooking, ocean studies, ceramics, weightlifting, general english, and woodshop with A's in all of them- there's the 4.0.</p>
<p>Not very many, haha -- maybe 4 or 5, at most (in my graduating class).</p>
<p>This one kid I know whom I thought was a perfect candidate for straight-A-dome got a B+ in Euro, haha. He's easily one of the top 5 smartest in the school (I myself got a B+ in Euro, lol, and a B+ in chem [one semester for each, lol], but I blame the teacher's pedantry for that one!)</p>
<p>insubvert: We too live in NJ and my D's public HS is very similar to yours....very few 4.0 UW....</p>
<p>In terms of college admissions, we sent about 5-10 to Ivies, but we also had 3 kids with 2400 in one sitting this past year....</p>
<p>Unfortunately, many schools care more about UW GPA's than they do about class rank...and if they don't understand that your high school GPA's are deflated relative to the rest of the country, the kids in the 2nd 5% of the class with approx 3.6-3.8 UW GPA's even with tons of honors and AP's usually get the shaft....that's what basically happened this year...all ended up in decent schools though....</p>
<p>I do not know.</p>
<p>For those who take all honors/AP, 4.0 UW is very rare. I'm a junior, and in my class, only two people have maintained 4.0 UWs for frosh/soph years (the easy years). So you can imagine what our GPAs might look like by graduation. :p</p>
<p>I don't know a thing about the '09ers though.</p>
<p>Nobody in my class of 800 has a 4.0 UW. Our #1 ranked person has a 3.88.</p>
<p>a lot... 4.0 at our school doesn't even make it to the top 10%</p>
<p>it's a little annoying</p>
<p>We have about 290 kids in our class and only 4 of us have gotten straight As all throughout high school! btw I got to a public school in a county that is known for its good high schools, ours not being one of them</p>
<p>We have 333 students and 13 4.0s. </p>
<p>Our system is weird -- the final grade for a class comes from averaging out the quality points from each quarter's grades. So technically you can get B's for two quarters and on a midterm or final, and A's for the other two and on the other semester exam, and end up with an A for the class. o__O </p>
<p>I don't really think it's fair to people who do get straight A's every quarter, but I can't complain 'cause I have on occasion gotten B's for quarters. (Although, for the record, I'm sure that I would have tried harder were the system not the way it is, but hypotheticals are more or less irrelevant to output, I know.)</p>
<p>Out of the whole 20 people who take the most rigorous track(trek???) at school, probably 4 or 5 have straight A's. My school really isn't that easy, we just have people who legitimately have no life.</p>
<p>Yea... I have a 4.0 and am 34th in my class. So a lot of people have As in my class.</p>