<p>My rank is 29/336 with a 4.7 GPA
We send over 5 kids a year to the Ivies/Duke (Were in NC)
Almost everyone applys to UNC
I just feel like I am only average at my school. About 1/3 of my grade is in AP Calc and 1/2 in APUSH, everyone only talks about test scores and people start not being friends when college acceptances come out. Is this normal? I know my cousin is 22/400 at another highschool in my town with a 4.3 GPA. Does anyone else have this problem?</p>
<p>My school ranks based on unweighted, you are barely in the top half with a 3.5. Though we only send like two people a year to top schools (class of around 120). Beyond that we stay fairly normal. People think I’m weird for taking the SAT again (I have a score in the 1900s), but we are not very competitive with each other. Rather we are just overall motivated. 3/4 of us are in AP Lang, 1/2 in APUSH, probably 2/3 will take an AP science as seniors and so on…</p>
<p>Wow Ive never heard of a school ranking unweighted. Couldn’t you just take easy classes and have a 4.0 and be #1?</p>
<p>Yes, it has happened once or twice. But generally the non-honors kids are less motivated (at least at my school). The entire top ten percent is honors kids, when you move to top 20 percent there is only like one non-honors kid…</p>
<p>Yes, it is more competitive than average, but not extremely so.</p>
<p>“Couldn’t you just take easy classes and have a 4.0 and be #1?”</p>
<p>My school doesn’t weight anything and there aren’t any issues with class rank. People who won’t take a single honors class don’t usually care about being valedictorian and don’t usually get anywhere near a 4.0 anyway.
Besides, it seems unlikely to me that a school would have regular classes so easy and honors classes so hard that some random “undeserving” student could get a 4.0 and an actual intelligent student couldn’t.</p>
<p>Do you happen to live in Cary, NC?</p>
<p>My GPA at the end of senior year was like 4.37 or something. I was like ranked 77/189 or something? I forgot LOL.</p>
<p>I feel like yours is normal edging to competitive but I have no idea how your ranking goes, as here, the highest GPA we have /is/ 4.7 so at 4.7 students would be like #1.</p>
<p>I really liked being at a pretty competitive school though. It’s what drove me to better myself and pass my potential</p>
<p>It’s definitely more competitive than my school, I’d say much more than average but the average here on CC is definitely not the true average.
For comparison, I was valedictorian with about a 4.25, by a decent amount I think, maybe 0.05 or even 0.10 in a class of 250. Must have different weighting, only APs weighted here (I took 8, UW GPA was about 3.99). I don’t know if my HS has ever sent anybody to ivies or similar, not that I have heard of. About 5-10% go to the state flagship though, one of the top ones in the nation. I’m not the competitive type though so I probably ignored any competition that did go on.</p>
<p>@Artsy- Rank is based on UNweighted GPA at your schools? That’s balls man. So someone can be in all college prep classes, ace them, and be valedictorian…ugh.</p>
<p>Not Cary, but pretty close. Our teacher say things like " Oh our school is on the same level with Charlotte and the schools in the triangle" I think the other high schools in our town are just below average. We get 1 pt (5) extra for honors and a (6) for AP</p>
<p>I don’t think average GPA is a good measure of competitiveness.
I have a friend who also has a 4.7 GPA, but she’s ranked at 2/890. Our school is definitely considered “competitive”, though. We send 20+ students to Ivy Leagues and schools like Duke every year.
APs only count as a 5 at our school, so it’s more difficult to get a really high GPA at our school. I think average GPA is more a measure of grade inflation/deflation at a school.</p>
<p>School rank is meaningless against another school<em>. Against competition within your own school, it could have some meaning, but even then only against someone with a like kind curriculum. (</em>Instate mandates and guarantees excluded).</p>
<p>I would say that is pretty competitive, it actually sort of sounds like my school. In this year’s senior class, twenty something people were tied for first place. (unweighted 4.0s lol) and the valedictorian’s (because of the number of people who have 4.0s, we have to use weighted gpas as the official class rank, but we receive both) weighted is always somewhat close to a 5.0…</p>
<p>My school ranks unweighted and weighted. They tie in with each other in some complex way. The Top 20 will never consist of a person that has taken regular classes.</p>
<p>Lol weighting doesn’t exist at my school…we rank by UW percentages. And it’s PRETTY competitive (although a lot of people might say that there’s grade inflation, I’m pretty sure our grades are deflated compared to other schools in the area). Out of of class of around 100, usually around 10 go to Ivies/MIT/Stanford/Caltech. My grade’s valedictorian has I think around 97.5 average (out of 100), and I think 91.5 would put you around the middle of the grade. At my school, sophomores are already freaking out about SATs, and I think the average SAT score would be around 2200-2250.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t rank, but I’d say about 1/3-1/2 of my school takes 4+ AP classes in junior year, then more senior year. A good amount of people end up with 5.0’s while balancing a bunch of other EC’s as well (usually speech/debate). This year we had 3 acceptances to Harvard, and a lot of others got into Ivies. I’d say we’re all really competitive, for us grades are the biggest thing. I know people that are retaking 2300+'s on the SAT.</p>
<p>If you send ANY kids to Ivies/top schools on a yearly basis then your school is definitely competitive.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my entire CITY only sends two or three kids to top schools each year, if that.</p>
<p>Where I live, I guess it depends what you mean by “top school.”
The “best” school anyone goes to on a regular basis is the University of Michigan, and that’s maybe one person every year. I think someone went to Northwestern in like 1995.</p>