<p>Our town, with a pretty well-respected suburban school system, doesn't rank. The reason: Too much cut-throat competition among the students (and parents) as it is. In fact, the middle school stopped publishing the honor roll in the local paper because some parents weren't letting their kids play with other kids who weren't on it! Or someone with high honors (all A's) couldn't play with someone with honors (all A's & B's). It got kind of ridiculous. The high school still publishes honors. Kids still get accepted to top-notch colleges & universities, even without the rank.</p>
<p>FYI, for anyone applying for a scholarship or financial aid award which is dependent on class rank; most schools who don't rank will in fact be able to privately tell the "organization that needs to know" your child's precise rank.......most keep an internal rank and just don't publicize it......just contact your guidance counselor or principal.</p>
<p>I totally support no ranking. At my academy high school of 100 students, it is very competitive. (All girl too, which I think adds to the cut throat atmosphere) </p>
<p>Honors and ap classes at my school only give you a .2 extra which really is not that much compared to how much tougher the classes are to those in track 1 and 2. </p>
<p>So, since I am best friend of the "unofficial" girl of my class, I know her gpa is a 4.062..or something similar. She is the only ap student with a 4.0, my school is guilty of horrible grade deflation which some teachers are trying to address. </p>
<p>Whereas, I assume (from honor roll announcements) that I am probably in the 40s. :-( However, I have a 3.642. Now, I know that many of the girls in the 20s and 30s are not in ap english/history..et cetera. So, I think if my school did rank...it would be really unfair.</p>
<p>At D's high school - which ranks - students fight tooth and nail for that extra 1000th of a point. They'll take on-line classes, summer school, any and every advanced subject just to get ahead.</p>
<p>It's gotten to the point that in her class #1 student was predetermined by 9th grade - the kid is a career student who hasn't stopped since kindergarten.</p>
<p>The difference between #1 and #2 is very tiny. I'm a junior, and the difference between her and #2 is .003. One got an A+ in gym, the otheer didn't.</p>
<p>lol... that's true... but over time... between the 2-3... 3-4 and so on... the .003's start accumulating...</p>
<p>Not really. The space is even thinner for probably the next 30 people (which makes up the top 10%). This is only true of my class though, the freshman, sophomores and seniors are much more spaced out. The likely senior valie only has 4.15gpa (but is going to harvard) but our #1 has a 4.3.</p>
<p>weird... our #1 has a 5.03 u go down the chain, by the time u get to 24... it's at a 4.6 i.e. top 5%</p>
<p>My class has about 450 students, so 45 people make up the top10%. #45 has a 4.1 compared with #1's 4.3. So that's .2 of a point, while for yours, it's about .4 of a point. Interesting.</p>
<p>.4 for difference of top 5%... top 10... is about... .7</p>
<p>I was just using the number you gave me lol. I didn't really have anything else to compare it to.</p>
<p>it's amazing how i spend my time on cc when i have stat and bio due on monday... :p</p>
<p>How would a parent suggest to the GC/Principal/Board that their school might consider eliminating ranking? I have mentioned it in passing to the GC who argued that in his experience, rank is still very important to colleges, and it was quickly dropped. It appears from CC posters, that this is really not the case. I personally hate the "race" for a point or two, and how it affects which classes are chosen. Not only the choice of classes, but the order they are completed. Some savvy students postpone all the non-weighted requirements (art, speech, gym, etc.) until their senior year because their rank will be higher when they apply to colleges at the beginning of the academic year. It gets crazy! Are there any resources or studies that can be referenced which shows that non-ranking schools are not penalizing their students?</p>