<p>FallGirl,
Exactly. No surprizes at our school though. Kids do not talk about grades and still know because of the size of school - 160 total in HS, 33 in D’s graduating class. But nobody knows exactly who is top until graduation, when it is annonced who is one person - top overall GPA and who is top GPA for senior year. School sends calss profile and kid’s transcript to colleges and nothing else. College determines kid’s rank based on this 2 peices of information. There are no easy classes in school and very few AP are offerred. Again means very little, since D (college junior) mentioned that her HONORS Chem and Physics prep her for college much better than others’ AP classes.</p>