<p>For my school, I am not sure. I have to find out.</p>
<p>Which determines your class rank (unweighted GPA or weighted GPA)?</p>
<p>I think weighted in our school.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that it'll be weighted--that's the whole point of weighting.</p>
<p>Sounds good! This will definately be a plus for me. Anybody else care to share?</p>
<p>We don't have unweighted/weighted... just percentages! So they use that...</p>
<p>Edit: We do get standardized in IB a bit though. It just counts as your regular mark.</p>
<p>We have percentages too, but our school still weights. Anybody else?</p>
<p>My school calls it the "standard unweighted system"</p>
<p>So basically, we have 4~5 valedictorians a year, which doesn't really make sense to me.</p>
<p>we do both, actually. our transcripts include both our weighted class rank and our unweighted class rank.</p>
<p>Nice. Anybody else? Apparently there is no one way to do it. What is the most common/traditional way?</p>
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<p>At my school, whoever has a gpa >= 4.0 weighted is a valedictorian. So, yeah, we have quite a few every year.</p>
<p>weighted. and thank god. =)</p>
<p>our valedictorian is determined by highest weighted gpa</p>
<p>sounds good.</p>
<p>My school doesnt weight and I am glad.</p>
<p>Weighting is lame. Sure the kid who is #1 in the class hasnt had a single advanced class, but the rest of the top 10% are all kids who have at least a few IB classes (or did in their earlier years). I can rank well without help.</p>
<p>I think that all schools should include weighting in their class ranking. My school does and if it didn't I'd feel pretty raped. If it wasn't included then the kid who took all the easy classes and recieved A's would (could) end up getting a higher ranking than the kid who decided to take all the AP classes he/she could.
I feel so sorry for all of you whose class ranking doesn't include weighted scores.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't weight classes and doesn't record Class Rank. We are put into percentiles.</p>
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<p>What the heck?? If my school did that we would probably have a few dozen "valedictorians." Sounds like your school is all over the NCLB's social policy of unduly inflating student ego and self-esteem.</p>
<p>It's ridiculous. Rank is determined by GPA, so everyone knows who the real valedictorian is. Anyway, factor in grade inflation and you can see how little "valedictorian" means at my school.</p>
<p>it's usually weighted
but some schools have unweighted, other schools all over 4.0 gpa... etc. there's this one school where the valedictorian is determined by GPA, test scores, & ECs</p>
<p>so it's all different and screwed up =)</p>
<p>im pretty sure ours is weighted, cause if not i need to go shot myself lol</p>