<p>So, I'm a sophomore, and I was thinking: if I took a lot of AP classes my junior year instead of taking more of them my senior year, thus boosting my GPA, and thus boosting my class rank to quite possibly Val, if I submitted ED before my rank went back down to regular (like 30/510) would that still show up on my College Applicaion as a 1/510? Even though that wouldn't be with what I'd end with?</p>
<p>Because, the due date of whenever ED is would be before other students could get their amount of APs in...</p>
<p>Uh, to fall from val to #30 you would have to do really bad. Even if you were listed as val when applying ED, you still have to send final reports as a senior and then your new rank would show up then. Better to just be consistent.</p>
<p>No, it would only appear as if I was val when I was sending my application in. Im really around 30/510, but me taking more AP classes than other students would put me at 1 or 2. ONLY until final grade reports as seniors, because then we’d most likely taken the same number of APs by then. So, I’d be back at 30/510.</p>
<p>No. Don’t abuse yourself junior year. Trust me, took 4 AP’s, crashed hard, couldn’t keep up, ended up with 3.56 for the semester and made my cumulative 3.91 from 3.99.</p>
<p>Uh, your school has some serious issues if taking a handful of APs affects your rank that much.</p>
<p>But ideally you want to take APs as a high school student, valedictorian or not (I assume you’re aiming for some selective schools if vale/salu is your goal).</p>
<p>my current rank is 40 (w). The difference between me and a friend of mine who is ranked 1 (we no longer have valedictorian in my county) is the three AP classes he took last year–now granted, we both have full IB schedules which puts us at an advantage because we can take 12 classes/yr instead of just 8, but it can make that much of a difference.</p>
<p>that said, don’t just take a bajillion APs to boost your rank. It’s lame and you’ll regret it.</p>
<p>If I end up taking 2 more APs than everyone else in my grade JUNIOR year, instead of SENIOR year, that would mess up with ranks. Because my average GPA would therefore be higher. . .</p>