<p>Hey I got my class rank for my first semester of my senior year, and it's gone down from 14 to 22 / 731; my grades have improved from junior year, but at our school we hafta take certain unweighted courses such as PE and Health to graduate. What should I do? Am I immediately going to be rejected from Yale? Or every other school for that matter? Sorry...i'm just really upset right now...</p>
<p>Hey, chill. It's okay. Nobody will reject you for taking Health. Rank isn't as important as how you stand alone. It's just used to gauge what your highschool was like (how competative it was).</p>
<p>I was personally bummed when I found out a new student had moved into the system and bumped us all down one. But the consequent fall in rank wasn't my fault, just as it isn't yours.</p>
<p>but the thing is, many of the other ppl who are above me in rank took less ap courses than me but (dare i say it?) made easier As and took far less ap courses; how will the university know exactly how "competitive my HS is"?</p>
<p>Oh man, thank god my school doesn't rank. It seems the source of such trivial, unnecessary stress.</p>
<p>I feel your pain, I'm 5th/822 in my class because I have 8 classes in a day, two of which are not weighted because they are band and orchestra. The people above me have better ranks because they quit band and are taking fewer classes. Gr...</p>
<p>ranking should be done by academic classes and weighted</p>
<p>I agree filmxoxo17. That's why I love my school: no gpa's, no rankings, no ap courses (although there are advanced courses that don't teach to the ap curriculum), and no valedictorians (graduation speakers are chosen by the students). I feel my high school experience has been great because I have not needed to worry about taking classes that might hurt my gpa or my ranking.</p>
<p>our school doesn't have the valedictorian speak, in fact we don't have a valedictorian at all. Instead the class president, chosen by all 821 of my classmates, who as you might expect don't always value intelligence and ability to deliver speeches, gets to talk. Actually, depending on where you live you may have heard of my high school's little voter fraud problem two years ago. We got the ACLU and the NAACP called on us and everything. This year they are making things slightly more fair by holding a speechwriting contest to augment the president's speech.</p>
<p>our school district got rid of recognizing valedictorians and salutatorians nearly a decade ago, but there still are people ranked #1 and #2</p>