<p>Our school actually issues number grades. It would literally say 92 on her report card. Our schools also list the grade on the state final as a separate number on the report card. Plus that is what the SAT and ACT are for. And class rank. If she graduates 5 out of 2000 with good SAT the colleges will have a pretty good idea what she is capable of. If she graduates 1 out of 6 with very average ACT score they are going to be much more cautious.</p>
<p>Many schools no longer rank. Ours doesn’t and rank does not tell you about how difficult a course load a student took only their standing in the line up. </p>
<p>So a student that takes no AP/honor classes and an easier overall course load and gets all "A"s may out rank a student that takes a harder class load (that may not be a weighted class but are simply harder) and gets some "B"s. Like taking all solids with few electives.</p>
<p>Snowdog…as far as I’ve been able to tell, all NC public schools are on the 93-100 = A scale. School districts here are also by county, which means that there are over 175,000 students in our school district in Charlotte.</p>
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<p>Sounds a little insane…
How are the kids doing in admissions to competitive schools? Do Admins take time and carefully go over transcripts during that first 2-3 minute slot each application gets?</p>
<p>Public schools in NY state use a 100 pt. scale. Colleges can then do what they want in determining what is an “A”, etc.</p>
<p>Rank without a consideration of rigor is not as meaningful. Think about it. </p>
<p>If 2 students can both get "A"s in a regular eg physics. But one student goes on to take the AP Physics and gets a “B” while the other one takes a less difficult course like Space Science and gets an “A”.</p>
<p>Which student has the higher rank? Which student is more able to take difficult courses which are more like college ones? Colleges are supposed to look at both I believe only we mostly only hear about rank.</p>