<p>If you only have 48 kids in your graduating class, does rank even matter anymore?--expecially if the top 15 or so kids have GPA's that only vary a little (#1 would have a 4.0 and #15 would have a 3.75)</p>
<p>Those may seem like very high GPA's for 15/48 students to have, but other 20 students that used to be in our grade left our school because their grades were not up to par.</p>
<p>anyone? please...</p>
<p>if there are 48 kids in your class, then unless your high school is very competitive, you should expect to be at least in the top 5</p>
<p>4.0 and 3.75 is a very significant difference. my school's valedictorian and salutatorians often have GPAs that vary only by 1/1000 of a point.</p>
<p>3.75 does not seem like a very high GPA. it does not seem like a high GPA at all</p>
<p>Being #1 from a small school is not particularly impressive but not being in the top 5 would probably be quite unimpressive--unless of course that school is extremely competitive which you and colleges should know if it is.</p>
<p>I guess it would depend on what college you are shooting for but a 3.75 would not get highest honors in my high school. Also to consider is the fact that being 15 out of 48 would mean not even making the 70th percentile.</p>
<p>sorry, I meant that the first 25 students out of 45 have GPAs of 3.75 or higher---because all the kids with low GPAs keep leaving (we started with 80 kids actually)</p>
<p>Why does your school even bother to rank?
My school has 135-150 students a year, and it does not rank.
If it were to rank, however, I would probably barely break the 50th percentile.
It's rather pointless if you attend a very prestigious and intellectual school.
Sort of like how the person ranked 1650/1650 in a Harvard class still graduated form Harvard.</p>
<p>I'm rank 1 in a class of 1 :P </p>
<p>Homeschooled btw</p>
<p>^ Pshaw.</p>
<p>I am ranked -0.00001231283021 out of 10. </p>
<p>Beat that. </p>
<p>(jk)</p>
<p>lol ur difference (.25) is the difference between our top 30 or something. but we have over 400 kids</p>
<p>It would suck if there were only 5 kids in your graduating class. No one would be top 10%</p>
<p>You haven't told us what your GPA is,</p>
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<li>As some poster has said, if you are not in some competative school, you must be at least top 5 (if competative, you still should)</li>
<li>0.25 GPA different between Val and 15th rank is quite huge, no matter where you go to school.</li>
<li>Rank definitely have less weight in a smaller school, but it is not as if it is worthless.</li>
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<p>i hear that "unless your hs is very competitive" all the time, but what does that mean? My school doesn't rank but I'd estimate that it's around a 0.2 difference for top 50 kids...</p>
<p>^...very competitive = top 100 on US news list, "name schools", schools with high ivy acceptance (ie, everyone after a certain GPA level/min SAT from your school gets in/feeder)</p>