<p>Does anyone have past experience of a really good ascent in class rank by improving G.P.A. late Sophomore Year or Junior Year?</p>
<p>If so, where did you start and end up in?</p>
<p>Personally, i was top 7% and then i got a straight A's 2nd Semester sophomore year, putting me in 4%</p>
<p>My bf kept doing what he was doing junior year, but everyone else seemed to fall flat junior year–either, from what I can tell, from a ridiculous courseload, too many trivial but time-consuming ECs, or a newfound penchant for partying. He moved up from 44 to 18 (out of 450-ish) just because everyone else got a B or two more than they planned.</p>
<p>Yes. 100-something/460 freshman year to 29/420 at the end of junior year (to 25/430 right now, but.)</p>
<p>I may have had a bad freshman year, which I compensated for by taking as many AP classes as was humanly possible.</p>
<p>It really depends on your school and its competitiveness. A year of straight As in all AP classes only moved me from 14 to 12.</p>
<p>Well 14 to 12 actually sounds good to me because kids ranked that high just aren’t making Bs. So the lower your rank starts the smaller your jump should be. Something like 14 to 7 would seem major (almost insane) to me.
Wow haavain you went from not even being in the top 20% to top 6%. That’s really good. Do you guys think it’s harder to make a huge jump (like haavain did) or to not fall (something like top 4% to out of the top 10%)?</p>
<p>There are two ways to get to # 1.</p>
<p>the conventional method is to work extrordinarily hard.
And then there is the frowned upon method.</p>
<p>I’ve only gotten one B since freshman year, and I’ve taken…16 AP or AP-equivalent classes in the past 2.5 years. :> My schedule is on par with–not the very top student, but the other students in the top 10? Yes. The key to my success is that I knew I was working beneath my ability and was confident that I could handle a full slate of APs junior and senior year and make A’s in all of them. I almost managed. ;)</p>
<p>That said, kids in the top 10 of my school do make the occasional B–it’s not habitual, though. Maybe one or two? (Our former val and current #4 made a C in sophomore year. But it was PE that knocked him down.)</p>
<p>Junior year is the most difficult–well, if you don’t let up on the difficulty senior year, first semester can be a real grind (all those college apps!) But I digress. To maintain your rank, you’ll have to stay on par with your peers, taking as difficult a schedule as they do and making mostly A’s. You know better than I whether you’re capable of that. Some kids in the top will likely fall as well as the work proves to be too much for them; there’s also going to be people like me who pull it together and start rising. Good luck.</p>
<p>At the end of semester 1 in freshman year, I was tied for rank 1. Then I fell each subsequent semester, ending up rank 16. I have since managed to move up to rank 10 in one semester.</p>
<p>PE really screwed me over in freshman and sophomore year. So did slacking off in several classes those years (I got A-'s where I should have gotten A’s). My junior year schedule saw 2 B+'s, one in an honors class and one in an AP class, yet I still managed to move up 6 ranks.</p>
<p>My aim is to move up significantly further by the first half of senior year (for college apps, of course). I hope to break the top 5. But that will be extremely difficult, because rank 4 currently has a cumulative GPA of 4.156, and I have 4.036.</p>
<p>Once you get near the top, it really stagnates. I was 14 in junior year, 13 at the beginning of senior year (straight A’s in jr year second semester), and became 12th second semester senior year after a C in physics.</p>
<p>I actually have a higher UW GPA than 11, but whatever.</p>
<p>freshman first semester i started at 150/600. second semester of sophomore i was 32/565. i expect to go up at least 10-15 more places by second semester junior year. it’s possible. just maintain as many A’s as you can.</p>
Man my school is so much more competitive just to get in the top 5% (top 50) you must have all A’s & take all AP classes. I’m 83/982 because I have all AP classes but a few B+'s. I’m going to be a sophomore in the fall but I fear it’s too late for me to make the top 5% since my school is so competitive…
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