<p>I'm not trying to be offensive, but those of you who want to be ranked sound insecure. You want proof confirming you have out performed fellow students and you want everyone else to know how "great" you truly are. Evidently, humility is a stranger.</p>
<p>It's not about recognition... it's about getting into college. A #1 or #2 rank out of a class of 445 is better than being Top 1% because Top 1% could include #1,2,3,4 and include kids who really don't take hard classes at all to maintain their grades.</p>
<p>Ideally I would like that my school ranked, but basically anyone with lower than a 90 average would fall in the lower middle 50%, which will inevitably make people go crazy since the curriculum is rigorous and if all of us were dispersed through out regular schools in the city we would all have close to perfect averages, by putting the work we have in the past or even less. Honors classes are not weighted, only APs are (1.1), good luck getting over a 92, I was a stellar student in both AP History classes I took and that's what I wound up with. Technically it just looks like there is rampant grade inflation since the class average is a 90.3, which is significantly high I believe than your average NYC Public school. But there is theoretically grade deflation since we all theoretically deserve higher averages.</p>
<p>Colleges will not hold you accountable, if your school does not distinguish among the top 1% of the graduating class.</p>
<p>Ostensibly, the principle of school has deviated from its true purpose: learning.</p>
<p>lol I love it whenever I see a form you fill out with your ranking and they say:</p>
<h1>1 in class?</h1>
<h1>2 in class?</h1>
<h1>3 in class?</h1>
<p>Other top 10%?</p>
<p>And I'm always like WHERE'S #4 IN CLASSSS
XD</p>
<p>hahaha ohh miss zanna, I have the same situation... it's sad-especially because I was three until like last month :(</p>
<p>teehee 4 is the highest possible for someone who didn't take summer school. =/
but it still makes me happy whenever I see the "top 5 people" option like in the stats section on CC</p>
<p>oh, I just always get screwed with the hardest teachers because my schedule gets locked-everyone else can switch out, I just have too many unmovable classes (e.g. German. lol)</p>
<p>My school does not rank and I am EXTREMELY happy about that. In my opinion there is no fair way to rank unless every single student takes all the same classes. If every student takes different classes and a different number of APs, the rank is impossible to calculate fairly (at our school AP Chem and AP Euro are harder than AP English and AP Calc, so how would you rank people taking a mixture of those classes?)
For example, this year, I'm taking the hardest classes out of everyone in the school. But I have one B, in the hardest class the school offers. Should I be ranked below a straight A student who is not taking the class? That is debateable; different people would have different opinions. Because it's impossible to compare, rank is meaningless.
Even if you're taking the exact same classes as someone else, you might have different teachers. Different teachers grade differently, so it's impossible even to compare that.</p>
<p>Class rank is a big numbers game. Students can manipulate their schedules so that they take required non-honor classes in the second semester of their senior year, thereby inflating their rank. It's hilarious that these students think the adcoms don't realize this.</p>