<p>At my old public school, probably 1/3 had straight A's. At my new private boarding school? I'd say 1/5.</p>
<p>I'm not really sure, because I'm in the IB program (like 1 or 2 usually get straight A's in the graduating class). But if you take only a few AP's, some honors, some regular...I'm not really sure. Probably like 80/800 a graduating class?</p>
<p>Here's what I posted before:
I have a 3.79uw by my school's weird scale, which comes out to either val or sal. A 4.0 is literally impossible and nobody has gotten it in the years I've been here. That being said, my recalculated gpa is a 3.96, which would be 3/280. This is a competitive suburban high school that usually sends anywhere between 6-12 to ivies.</p>
<p>Here's what I just found out:
The top decile cutoff is around 3.2.</p>
<p>I’m a junior at an extremely anti-competitive school in rural Maine. In my class of 243, not a single person has an UW 4.0. #1 in my class has a 4.06 weighted, with 2 AP’s so far. Then #2 has a 3.997 weighted with 1 AP. Keep in mind that there are few AP’s offered in my school and they get only a 0.5 weighting. And we offer no honors track. Only 2 or 3 people in my class take the hardest course load available. I’m #5 with a 3.916 weighted…even though at a better school I would be like #50. </p>
<p>So basically if someone had straight A’s in general classes they would make it to #2, but that never happens because even our general classes are impossible. I’m in regular chemistry and I have to spend hours on every irrelevant homework assignment because it there is one mistake it will be dropped to an A- and after like three A-'s my class grade turns into an A-=3.67 GPA. Administration wonders why the best school we’ve ever sent a kid to was Dartmouth - because we don’t get high enough GPA’s! And then they wonder why so many kids fail and drop out…</p>
<p>Each grading period about 10 people in each grade get straight As. By the end of senior year, usually only the vals have a 4.0 UW (last year one person who wasn’t val did because she had taken an additional unweighted class). So the most we’ve ever had in a class to graduate 4.0 UW is 7, which happened when I was in seventh grade and it was a huge deal. The number varies a bit, but it’s usually under 5. Never just one, that would be sad, for someone to have to give a valedictory speech all alone.</p>
<p>There’s about 2250 at my school.</p>
<p>Maybe 60 people each grading period get straight As, usually breakdown is something like this -
~30 freshman
~17 sophomores
~9 juniors
~4 seniors</p>
<p>5-6 IB kids have straight As (I’m one of them).</p>
<p>It depends on the class. Anywhere from almost the whole class to basically none (3/50, and one of those 3 cheats).</p>
<p>lots of people in my class do, but im a sophomore.
our school ranks by weighted grade so i have it lucky, i guess.
im 46 out of ~580ish with a 4.222 weighted.
but number one has straight As with possibly a 4.6…im behind :(</p>
<p>My school chooses valedictorian and salutatorian (no other ranks) based on weighted GPA. I have a 4.0 UW, but there are people who’ve taken more weighted classes. It’s kind of frustrating, because your GPA is higher if you take a free period rather than a class that isn’t weighted, when it seems like the students taking a heavier courseload should be rewarded. Oh well.</p>
<p>My class of 67 there is one with 4.0 UW and two with 1 B. Grades are insanely inflated with the average GPA probably around 3.3-3.4 -.-</p>
<p>enough to make my Bs look bad :mad:</p>
<p>at my school in my grade there is only one 4.0 uw ( a- = 3.7) and that person is in no honors classes</p>
<p>like 69 out of 590</p>
<p>My school weights GPAs and rankings are based on the weighted GPAs rather than the unweighted, and has no + or - system. As far as people getting 4.0’s? It’s not hard here. UW that is. Actually getting 4.0’s weighted is even easier as honors classes are worth more than standard classes but they are only minutely harder (except for a select few classes like chemistry which use completely different curriculum). So about the top 50 people in my class have 4.00 or higher weighted. As for unweighted, only the top 5 out of the 450 students in the class have a 4.0 UW. AP classes are no pushover in my school however (except AP Psych) so people who go so far as to take AP classes tend to see a dip in their unweighted GPAs but the fact that an AP class with worth 6.00 when calculating GPAs cushions the impact.</p>
<p>So far I’ve been lucky enough. Next year I’m going to witness the plummet first hand. I am a clairvoyant after all.</p>
<p>Probably 50 students in my grade have never gotten a B since the beginning of high school, and that too in all honors classes.</p>
<p>Top 5-7% of my class get straight A’s. I’m exactly 1 person away from being in the top 10% in my class and I don’t have all A’s, maybe like 5’s B</p>
<p>yea it seems like everyone on here has the complete 4.0, 2300+, valedictorain rank 1/500 package. It is quite depressing really. </p>
<p>at my school there are about 20 to 30 valedictorians every year, they all have 4.0s and whatnot. i am pretty sure every single person in my grade has had As sometime during their high school carrer.</p>
<p>I don’t know, but a ton.
I remember in last year’s graduation program, there was one whole page in 10 point font, filled with the names of students who earned straight A’s all semesters during high school.
insanity. it was at least 50…out of a class of 350.
and A’s at my school are hard to get, especially in honors and ap classes.</p>
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<p>^ To add on to my previous note: 4.0 here is actually quite easy to get, since A+'s are worth 4.4 on our grading scale. Which means that a lot of people have inflated GPA’s due to the easy electives they took.</p>