<p>listen - it doesn't matter what scale ur school uses. you're only evaluated directly with people in your own school, not with other applicants. thats why weighting and class rank are important.</p>
<p>case in point.
if you have a 3.7 but are no. 1 in your class of 200 and another person in another school has a 4.7 and is no. 10 in a class of 200, the 3.7 is looked more favorably upon because he did better in context with his own school.</p>
<p>remember, in general kids in public high schools are all the same - a few winners, a whole lotta losers. you know that people who rank in a certain percentile in 1 school would rank in the same percentile at another school. the only exceptions would be to schools which you have to apply to - other than that its all easily comparable.</p>
<p>the only time you run into a problem is when honors and AP classes arn't weighted and you are ranked - however, i would think that the vast majority of the kids who would be getting A's in regular classes are in the honors classes.</p>