<p>There are certain things that get really annoying on the boards. I have just been over at the "What are my Chances?" thread, and I start to notice a trend.</p>
<p>1) People "predict" their SAT scores. You cannot predict or estimate your SAT scores. You can have a goal, but you can't say what you think you earned.
2) Everybody goes to a "top national" or "top state" school. Not everybody can go to one of these schools, or else there would be no "top" school. I can say that my high school is a top "Savannah, Georgia" school, because it is. That is proven and is a fact. However, I would not say that it is a top state school because their are lots of schools in Atlanta that would kick our butts.
3) People weighting their grades. Every college and university has a different system when it comes to grades, so showing us your weighted grade is not going to make a difference to us. Better than giving us your weighted average, you should give us your rank, which is a much better indicator of your GPA than your weighted GPA.</p>
<p>If anybody is offended by these, I really am sorry. However, if you notice other inadequacies (sp?) on these boards, then here is a place for you to rant!! This can be a fun board, instead of all those <strong>serious</strong> threads that exist on this site.</p>
<p>don't feel guilty, it's just something that i notice as a trend, that MOST people have. I hope that by pointing it out, it will happen less and less. I know that some people don't realize that what they say is their weighted gpa doesn't really matter to a college. I try to avoid putting this stuff above in my profile so that I would not seem like a hypocrite. But if you notice, it seems that most of the people on these boards (and ALL of them- not just gtown by any means!!) go to the top public or private school in the state or nation.</p>
<p>Lol that is true, now I feel like my school has lied to me all these years!
Altho Newsweek magazine told us we were top 3%, so I guess we aren't the very best...(yes, this is sarcasm)
No, I commend you on your cleansing efforts, keep up the good work!</p>
<p>Class rank (weighted) + secondary school rank (or equivalent weighting) - would be highly valuable - however colleges avoid these numbers as they would hurt their URM recruitment</p>
<p>voguepanda, your school got that newsweek recognition too? What number was it ranked, just out of curiosity. I was wondering how the colleges I'm applying to are going to look at it, because my school was top 10. I don't know, it seemed more of an indicator of how many APs are offered and kids who actually take them then the actual quality of a school, though there's definitely some correlation between.</p>
<p>GirlA, you are quite correct. When I was visiting Washington and Lee, a math professor told me that many public schools are forcing their kids to take the AP exams because it increases their rank, no matter what their scores were. We were on this topic because he was scoring the Calculus AB exams, and many a time he read poetry instead of proofs on the free response questions because the students didn't care what their grade was since they were forced to take the test.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what number my school is, but it definately is up there because they REALLY force the APs down our throats, not to mention everyone in the IB program takes a total of 7 IB exams. Infact, I'm in AP french lit. right now and they wont let me not take it next semester even tho it's my elective. My school is very...weird? It is in the ghetto, it is EXTREMELY poor, and they throw in the IB program, and its a false sense of security because while the rest of the school has a good chance of not even graduating, everyone thinks we're amazing, and therefore everyone ignores to underprivaledged who need the most help...it is really frustrating.</p>
<p>It's true it seems very strange the way US News and World Report (I believe it was that magazine) allowed the number of AP enrolled students (w/o adjustment for AP testing results) in a high school to be the one of the primary factors (if not THE PRIMARY FACTOR) in determining their rankings</p>
<p>However it gave USN+WR the politically correct rankings they seem to have wanted from the beginning - with lots of inner city public schools rating very high</p>