<p>So I had the highest grade in my Latin class, but I learned today that my exam dropped my grade ONE POINT SHY of a good GPA bracket. This has put me out of the running for #1 this year and is going to hurt me in years to come. How do I get over it?</p>
<p>I seriously hope you’re a ■■■■■…</p>
<p>Not a ■■■■■. Help me.</p>
<p>…I guess you can listen to good music… This won’t hurt you at all. A lot of students want to be in your position right now. It like a rich kid getting a new luxury car and then coming on a forum site and complain how he/she doesn’t like it. People will hate that. You are smart and you shouldn’t complain on something when you’re probably well above most students. You really need to see reality here, and brush it off your shoulders. Your fine, your fine, your fine lol. Don’t stress over it.</p>
<p>You’re a freshman, according to your other posts. Lighten up.</p>
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<p>I understand why you’re upset, but seriously? no, you’re not going to care in years to come. this isn’t THAT big of a deal…</p>
<p>oh freshmen CC’ers…</p>
<p>You can try to get over it: music, exercise (running? sports?), gaming, sleeping, etc</p>
<p>Know that your hopes of #1 are gone forever. Why? Because you didn’t finish off the class. Some other kid is gonna be walking down the halls with a spring in his or her step, knowing that they are #1 and another competitor has fallen.</p>
<p>Accept the fact that you’ll never get accepted into a top 30 school, or any selective school for that matter.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean like I am so torn up about it. Emotionally I’m fine! Summer began for me today 
I meant how do I overcome it statistically, like how do I not let it affect my chances of being at the top of my class.</p>
<p>Your question still doesn’t make sense to me. All you can do is work your hardest and hope for the best.</p>
<p>The only other thing I did when I was in a similar situation was to petition our school to start weighting grades for honors/AP classes. And they did! Moved me up to #1. Looking back, I’m kind of embarrassed I did that, but whatever.</p>
<p>Who the heck cares.</p>
<p>If your school weighs AP/honor classes and valedictorian is based off of your weighted GPA, you shouldn’t have a problem getting your spot again. Taking multiple APs and honors classes will surely help you.</p>
<p>oh haha. sorry for the misunderstanding thenerdofawesome.</p>
<p>statistically, I don’t think it matters. unless the size of your grade is REALLY small, being number 2 won’t be so different from number 1. it shouldn’t hurt you at all, really</p>