Reporting class rank, Salutatorian: 7th or 2nd?

Very bad form OP. You might want to accept some of the responsibility yourself. The sentence would have been so much better with the word “with” replacing “of.”

Am I not included in the previous posters? Yet another example of miscommunication when words are not scrutinized before posting or while reading. I could have said “with” or I could have said simply “posts” but that is what my mind typed at around 12:30 last night, and isn’t the purpose of this site to help students and parents, not argue over interpretation of words on a screen? So, back to the conversation at hand, thank you @mathmom for that insight, at my school they don’t even tell you what your gpa is past 2 decimals, but they will still use it past 2 to calculate your rank, which brings us to the interesting info that @iwannabe_Brown has offered up. I’m not sure why guidance has to be so secretive about the whole process and calculation. Was it like that at your schools?