<p>I don't know if I am doing it correctly.</p>
<p>I am class rank 44 of 342. Though if more people are coming into the class, my number will go up. ( I don't know how to explain it better but I was 30 something when there was 350+ students in my class)</p>
<p>Anyway.. I divided 44 by 342 and then multiplied by 100...I got 12.865497076023391812</p>
<p>The 12.something signifies that you’re in the top 12.something % of your class. </p>
<p>Usually colleges look at your ranking percentage wise than the number because of different schools with a different number of class sizes. </p>
<p>Ah I see…is that bad to be in top 12 of my class?I am also in a brand new school and class of 2015 will be the first full graduating class</p>
<p>Top 12% is very good. You still have one more year left, though. In that time, be sure to continue working hard; your class ranking could increase or decrease depending on your grades senior year. Also, senior year grades are important for colleges (except for some unselective schools that don’t even ask for them until the fall that you enroll…) since most request midyear/ midterm grades. Keep up the good work!</p>
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This should be rounded up. You’re not in the top 12% because this number is bigger than 12, but you’re in the top 13%. If you want to be more specific, top 12.9%.
Your percentile rank would increase if more students came to your school (as long as they were all ranked lower than you), but your absolute rank wouldn’t. You would still be 44th as long as none of the new people were ranked higher. </p>
<p>Yeah many that came in were ranked lower than me and the highest I was in rank was top 5.</p>
<p>And I have been having majority of All A"s my HS career , sometimes one class where I am a high B that’s 1-2 points away from an A (-____-;;)</p>
<p>And I am very well aware of how senior grades are important for college. I already have a college I want to apply to.</p>
<p>None of my college choices are unselective…they are usually top-tier schools</p>
<p>It’s kinda weird because my class rank was 30 when there was 353 people in class…then dropped to 44… and grades were still the same.</p>
<p>Nothing new was added.</p>
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Do you have a safety school (a school that you like, that you can afford, and that you’d definitely get into)?</p>
<p>No.After researching for years(I been selecting my colleges since 3rd grade) and ruling out many…University of Georgia is the only college I want to go to.</p>
<p>With how I am…it’s either UGA or no college at all.</p>
<p>I don’t really like Georgia much and I have no choice but to stay in Georgia. Only school that was appealing to me is University of Georgia. I used to like GeorgiaTech but I gave up on that school and eventually disliked it.</p>
<p>No colleges I can afford actually. If it wasn’t for financial aid or scholarships, high school would be the end for it.</p>
<p>Well it still would probably be if I don’t get accepted to UGA.</p>
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Figuring out how to pay for college is the most important part of the whole process. Most people can’t pay for college without some kind of financial aid. You don’t need to be able to pay the sticker price for any school, but ideally you should be able to pay for most of your education with grants, scholarships, and money you and your parents have saved rather than taking out a lot of loans. I would recommend getting your parents to help you run net price calculators on the websites of colleges you’re interested in. </p>
<p>I tried to pick a safety school but I just got way too irritated and uncomfortable and I knew I can’t pick an alternative school because I do not feel as though it will fit me right and I would be very unhappy going to the college and I know I won’t make it the first month in the college.</p>
<p>I’d be too irritated .</p>
<p>There is no money saved for me. Nothing. </p>
<p>And none would be saved for me. I just have to try and earn my own money.I am the last child to have yet graduated HS and college(if I go that is)</p>
<p>And already run the price for the college I want to go to which is University of Georgia.No other college I will feel comfortable or happy applying in and none I would want to go to even if I was accepted.</p>
<p>Only University of Georgia or no college at all.</p>
<p>Everyone needs a safety school. There are thousands of colleges in the United States and most of them aren’t all that selective, so you should be able to find a safety school that fits you. Large state schools are a common option, but it’s not the only one you have. I mean, what are you going to do if you apply to a bunch of really selective schools and don’t get into any of them? Or what if you don’t get good financial aid? You’d have to either go to a community college and apply as a transfer student (which is harder than getting in as a freshman), or take a gap year and reapply. </p>
<p>I can’t do safety school for some reason…it is just so unsettling.</p>
<p>If I don’t get in, no college period.No gap year.No community college.None.</p>
<p>Just due to personal reasons and things that happened to me, I will never do a gap year, I will never do community college because that is just strongly opposed for me and I am staying firm with never doing community college after High School.</p>
<p>I been researching all the colleges within the United States since I was little and many I had on list and many I removed and now I am down to one.</p>
<p>Sorry that’s just how I am due to thing.</p>
<p>I can’t possibly believe that you are so set on one school. You need to look for where you can get scholarships. Find a few schools that would bring the cost down to a reasonable amount. This “reasonable amount” I speak of is the direct gov loans (5500 freshman year, 6500 soph year, and 7500 in both junior and senior years) plus earnings from a summer and school year job. You can go to college, if you decide to be a little more open minded. I don’t know if Georgia will give you adequate money; if they do, great! If not, you should have a backup plan that doesn’t involve giving up on your college aspirations.</p>