<p>I hate teh system.</p>
<p>I received three B's freshman year, and it's keeping my GPA from being higher than it is.</p>
<p>As a result, I am rank 4 instead of rank 1. The three kids that are ahead of me flaunt their knowledge and get all the respect.</p>
<p>I HATE THE RANKING SYSTEM.</p>
<p>sorry. I just had to get it out of my system.</p>
<p>anyone else get screwed over?</p>
<p>It's your fault.</p>
<p>Deal with it.</p>
<p>thats too bad...it just shows that a small flaw can keep you from being #1 in your class</p>
<p>If I had taken a weighted elective my freshman year, I'd be salutatorian. Who would've known that being interested in music theory could be so deleterious?</p>
<p>well at our school...if you come in past freshman year you have two gpas so then say you come in junior year...</p>
<p>your gpa contains all those ap classes that are available starting junior year without your freshman/sophomore grades where you didn't have any aps to weigh you down</p>
<p>the result is everyone who's been at my school since freshman year gets screwed over while teh kids that came in late get the advantage.</p>
<p>As much as poison.ivy seems mean saying it, "he/she/it" is right.</p>
<p>Would it be any fair that the valv. is third because he doesn't whine enough about it? They earned their grades. </p>
<p>Is it any fairer that someone in the 50th rank they weren't given the best genes for studying and so are ranked 50th? It's life, live with it. </p>
<p>You only die when you stop striving.</p>
<p>are most class rankings based on weighted or uw gpas?</p>
<p>just curious because i've gotten all A's but my freshman year high school didn't offer any honors classes.</p>
<p>It varies from school to school, but usually it's based on weighted grades.</p>
<p>oh well, I'll just ask for my u/w ranking for college apps</p>
<p>the only thing I think is unfair is that my school actually has a policy that only people who have attended the school for at least 3 years can be named valedictorian or salutatorian, so there's no way I can put either of those on my apps</p>
<p>I'm not going to get the highest ranking in my class but i will have a decent GPA probably around a 4.3 or so AROUND there, perhaps lower, and perhaps higher if i can really get my act togeter. SO. How much does rank really matter? specifically in this case? in general?</p>
<p>My school doesn't release rankings. But it would be soo awesome to be salutatorian and deliver a speech to the rest of my class right before we part our different ways... Ah, despair!</p>
<p>I'm hoping that the people ranked 2nd and 3rd either take two unweighted classes or get two B's each.</p>
<p>At my school, AP classes are given a weighted grade of 5 for an A, 4 for a B, etc. However, the girl ahead of me in class rank is pretty much done w/ all the APs at our school and will be taking community college classes.
As far as I know, the cc classes aren't given a weighted rank unless they correspond to an AP class for which an AP test can be taken. That seems unfair to me.</p>
<p>My question is: if your school calculates rank based on weighted grades, how do they handle community college classes and weighting?</p>
<p>My school is about five minutes away from Princeton. Therefore, they have an agreement that any student that completes all the courses available through the high school in math, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, foreign language, or music with adequate grades can take an introductory college-level course at Princeton provided it works out in the student's schedule. Princeton doesn't issue college transcripts, so you can't get college credit, but the courses are reported on your high school transcript and included in your GPA. They're six credits (as opposed to 5) and weighted the same as AP's and honors.</p>
<p>It's practically impossible to take all the courses available in subjects like art and social studies.</p>
<p>You guys are right. I have to quit being a whiny sissy--online at least. I'm very reserved in person and people say that I'm very humble.</p>
<p>Sorry everyone. Best of luck to all.</p>
<p>Your system bugs you? Check out mine. In my school, getting straight A's isn't enough to secure you a top spot. A student with a weighted GPA of 4.0 is not even in the top of the class! I have a weighted GPA of 4.64, which accounts for straight A's and the maximum number of GT classes /besides/ band and an honors foreign language (GT credit not available until Language 5). I am tied at #9 with about 30 other kids! Next year, we will likely only be in the top 15 rank-wise if we maintain our schedules.</p>
<p>My friend would have the exact same GPA as me, but she received ONE B freshman year and is now ranked 25. </p>
<p>The valedictorian and other top ranked students are there only because they have "crammed" their schedules with AP courses, taking required preliminaries over the summer, for the SHEER PURPOSE OF MAINTAINING THEIR GPA.</p>
<p>Class rank at my school is more about how obsessed you are with "the perfect numbers" and less about your passion and pursuit of education. Even I admit to foregoing taking a photography class (I want a career in photojournalism) and joining the school newspaper staff because it would harm my GPA! Instead I take Biology AP. I hate science!</p>
<p>Because the situation with class rank and its obnoxious competitiveness has gotten so crazy at our school, we don't officially acknowledge valedictorians - but everyone knows who holds the coveted class rank of 1, and we usually see him with AP and ACT books at Uno's on a Friday night while we celebrate a friend's birthday, studying like mad and trying to figure out how he can raise his GPA from a 4.94 to a 5.0!</p>
<p>Hm, it's the same way in my school. I know of a valedictorian who dropped orchestra and all (which she was really good at and loved) so her WGPA would be higher. A bunch of my friends are INREDIBLY smart but take orchestra, so they're ranked below me, since I took AP computer science instead.</p>
<p>gpa isn't worth the breath, honestly I don't see why people even care, just do the best that you can(or want to do) and stop caring about stupid rankings.</p>