<p>Our school has a local newspaper that ranks the top 10 graduating seniors, based on SAT/ACT and GPA. (new sat divided by 2.4 or ACT x 27.777... plus GPA x 250).</p>
<p>We don't have val/sal anymore, but perhaps our school is secretly ranking us anyway. What I'm "worried" about is this Top 10 thing now. I was talking to my friend, and it turns out a bunch of people have 34's and 35's on their ACTs. I don't want this to consume this life, but it'd be good to get it after working so hard in HS...Hmm. I don't think I want to retake a 33 just to guarantee this spot though. </p>
<p>Does anybody else have this ranking thing? What do you think about the way the newspaper is doing this Top 10 stuff?</p>
<p>they have no business doing a ranking like that. its intrusive and unfair. my towns newspaper posts a bulettin of everyone on high honor roll and honor roll for the local public high school (which i dont go to), which is fair, but not rankings which is not fair. plus, something like this will not play out as important in the whole scheme of things. this probably wont matter that much in the future.</p>
<p>I know, it's the only two things they take into account. I guess it's because we don't have an "official" rank, so they want to let the city know who's "smart."...It kind of sucks, but the issue came out last Thursday and I'll check it out. </p>
<p>Would you still think it's intrusive etc. if you were in the "Top Ten"?</p>
<p>I think this whole rank=intelligence thing is absolute crap.</p>
<p>My best friend never studied, never did his homework, failed three classes his freshman year.</p>
<p>I never study either, but I do my homework. One day on a Biology test I got 102 with the extra credit essay, he got 105. Now people would say I'm smarter than him because I'm in the top tenth and he's in the bottom tenth, but it may not be true.</p>
<p>Just curious.. how does the paper get the information on everyone's SAT/ACT scores and GPA? Obviously the school can't be giving this information away, so do they ask everyone to report their own scores/grades?</p>
<p>Yeah, they can't just use GPA because then we'd have way too many 4.0's. I don't know if our school does the points out of 100 but doesn't tell us. Ranking is pretty messed up, but so are percentiles...it's just a more general rank, eh? </p>
<p>I think the school gives the newspaper the info. The kids probably gave them permission too. This is so weird...crazy. I thought a lot of other schools would have this weird SAT+GPA rank thing too.</p>
<p>I think this newspaper thing should work like obituaries lol. No death has to be announced, nor does the cause thereof, or life story of the deceased but you can.</p>
<p>If Parent X wants to brag about their lovely child, they should be able to do so. If I got rejected from my top choice though, and they posted that I was headed to the crappy old state school and had ranked in the bottom fifth, I would butcher and mutilate them.</p>
<p>haha anticatalyst and godfather, do you guys have a "senior magazine" that has where all the seniors are going and their favorite quotes/memories/etc.? yeah, and parents do buy ads in the newspaper to say "congrats/goodluck" and insert a random photogenic image of their kid.</p>
<p>rank...seems like it's a little about manipulating the system.
so do you guys think trying to get on the top ten is worthless? it comes out june of senior year, so it doesn't 'matter' in terms of college admissions...</p>