<p>How does the ranking system work in high school? for example, does it make any difference if you get a 98 or 91 in a certain class, if they're both just A? or does the GPA determine it? just curious. had a discussion with someone. I'll be in hs in september.</p>
<p>It really depends school to school. Some don’t give a 4.0 for a 91% and instead give whatever amount that an A- is equal to. My school gives 90%+ = A. But some teachers have the letter automatically round from a B+ to an A if you’re at 89.5%+ I love my school in that aspect haha.</p>
<p>Do you know if schools use weighted or unweighted GPA in rankings? I assume weighted…otherwise there would be lots of 4.0’s (unweighted.) My son has a 4.0 unweighted and a 4.3 weighted and I know there are lots of 4.5+ in his class. Really hoping he’ll be in the top 5% (for admission into honors college) but I don’t think he’ll make it if it is based on unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>We rank solely based on GPA. And if a 98 and a 91 are both A’s (as determined by the teacher), then those are considered to be the same when it comes to GPA/rank.</p>
<p>We rank on letter grades.
But we go a bit more into it than just 4 for A.</p>
<p>If you make like a 100-96, you get the full 4.0. But if you make like a 95 you get a 3.666, a 94 a 3.5 and a 93 a 3.3333, it goes like this for every letter grade, so you basically have to make within 4 points of the highest numerical grade for your letter to get the full point value of that letter. It’s really lame.
Like, I’ve made all A’s, except one was a 94, the rest 96 or above. so my gpa is like a 3.997 unweighted, and 4.447 weighted.</p>
<p>so when they post the rank, it is based on weighted or unweighted?</p>
<p>9-12 Weighted GPA at my school.</p>
<p>I think at least most of the schools (if not all) use weighted GPA to rank. It’s fair. otherwise a student can take easy classes to get ahead. AP and honor classes weigh more in ranking as well.</p>
<p>Our school does weighted, but our grading scale is messed up.
100-93 A 4
92-85 B 3
84-77 C 2
76-70 D 1
69-0 F 0</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank.</p>
<p>A friend of mine… her school is bizarre. They do unweighted then arrange that by weighted. So they arrange all of the kids in order with a 4.0 by their weighted GPA and then all of the kids with a 3.9 by their weighted GPA. It kind of screwed my friend over. She has like a 3.9 unweighted but a 4.7 weighted GPA, so she has one of the highest weighted GPAs in the school, yet she’s not even in the same part of the ranking as them. =/ Sucks for her.</p>
<p>Our rank is determined by weighted classes (AP/Honors classes) too.
We used to have A-, which would be weighted slightly less than an A, but they’ve since gotten rid of the minuses. It’s kind of frustrating considering a 90% gets the same letter grade as say a 102%. Grr.</p>
<p>98-100 = A+ (4.3)
93-97 = A (4.0)
90-92 = A- (3.7)
88-89 = B+ (3.3)
83-87 = B (3.0)</p>
<p>And so on. </p>
<p>Man I wish my school considered a 97 to be an A plus. 98 just makes life more stressful. Our weighting is +.5 for honors and +1.0 for AP. I think it’s a great system. Every year, the smartest and hardest working kids are top of the class. That’s how it should be.</p>
<p>I have a question for you posters. Do you feel a transfer student’s gpa from a non-ranking small 9th grade school (private, different location) should be automatically incorporated into the different location public school’s 9th grade class (10 x larger and ranked) upon starting 10th grade? Yep, that’s my question!</p>
<p>What say you? And what impact do you foresee on student’s overall rank at college/university application?</p>
<p>^Definitely not. An A at one school is certainly not the same as an A at a different school.</p>
<p>That being said, the colleges will look more at the letter grades than the rank. As long as the letter grades are decent, this shouldn’t have much of an effect (positive OR negative) on admissions, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Really bummed for my son. He has a 4.4 weighted (4.0 unweighted) and we just learned that is top 11% out of 318 students. (He was hoping for top 5% for the MSU honors college.)</p>
<p>I’m glad my school has a simple ranking system - ranking is based on weighted GPA, which I think makes sense because AP and honor classes are certainly harder to get an A. and we don’t have A+ or A-. An A is an A - 91, 99 are the same. I’m glad. I’m a good student but I often make stupid mistakes or forget turning in something. so most of mine are around 95, almost never made a 98. :)</p>
<p>Canadian Scale is awesome:</p>
<p>86-100 A
73-85 B
65-72 C+
60-64 C
50-59 C-
<50 F</p>
<p>85.5 rounds up. :)</p>
<p>What about Weighted vs Unweighted, because my class rank is different in both
Weighted- 16/488= 97% percentile
Unweighted- 29/488= 94% percentile</p>
<p>so in one i am top 5% percent, yet in other i am not, so what one do colleges see? I have only 2 B’s just class I am in are really competitive.</p>
<p>According to most posts, weighted counts. so you ARE top 5%!</p>
<p>My school ranks on weighted GPA. Honors, AP and dual enrollment classes are all weighted heavily so it is not uncommon for someone at my school to have a GPA higher than 5.0.
Fortunately, the grading scale is based on letter grades.
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
0-59 F</p>