<p>How exactly does class rank work if a lot of people at your school get 4.0 UW?
I mean, there are still people who get like 3.9s and stuff. So I don't think it's grade inflation.</p>
<p>If a ton of people have a 4.0 UW that’s inflation pretty much always.
My school doesn’t calculated weighted GPA, so if two people have the same GPA they look at who had more honors classes.</p>
<p>Most schools do unweighted and weighted grades, and use weighted to calculate class rank, and that way there are rarely ties. If they use unweighted, there would probably be lots of ties. I guess there can be multiple co valedictorians, and I know at my school if there is a tie they do it like this: say both #5 and “#6” have a 4.89 weighted, they would both technically be #5 and there would be no #6. The next person after them would go straight to #7.</p>
<p>At my school they don’t weight so class rank is based on unweighted GPA however if there is a tie for val or sal they go back and weight.</p>
<p>I worry that my school does alphabetical order if there’s a tie. The three people ranked above me have the same GPA and they’re ranked in alphabetical order. I hope it’s coincidence.</p>
<p>oh, okay, that makes sense! :D</p>
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<p>Not might be. It was a dumb question. But I’ll answer it regardless.</p>
<p>There are very few situations where there are multiple people with 4.0UWs. Usually this signifies grade inflation, but I digress. If there are such situations, in my school, they break it down by year, giving junior year grades the most weight and deciding by that. Beyond that, I have no clue.</p>
<p>There is only one valedictorian. Beyond that, my school uses the system post #3 described.</p>
<p>It really wasn’t a dumb question? Maybe he/she just didn’t know?</p>
<p>So if I didn’t know what 2+2 was, and asked it on this board, would that make my question any less “dumb?” Because by your logic, it’s can’t be cause “I didn’t know.”</p>
<p>Yup, because asking how class rank is determined is just as stupid as asking what 2+2 is. Makes sense.</p>
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Yeah, I actually didn’t know.</p>
<p>“It was a dumb question…Beyond that, I have no clue.”</p>
<p>Lol.</p>