Unweighted Ranking System for GPA?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>My high school doesn't weight their grades. Honors classes and AP classes are not taken into consideration at all, because it's considered unfair.
Because of this, currently, the highest ranked students in our class are people who have never taken a single difficult class and have easily attained perfect 4.0s.
As far as I know, the first 6 or 7 spots are tied, and few of them have taken a math class higher than Algebra 2 throughout their entire high school career.
I'm currently standing at around 9 or 10 with a unweighted 3.89. This isn't at all a true reflection of the rigor of the classes I'm taking, however. </p>

<p>A lot of scholarships seem to ask about rankings, however. Do they take into consideration that the rankings are not weighted?</p>

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<p>Ask your guidance counselor to write them letters about how your school ranks? I’ve also been having a few class-rank troubles, since I’ve transferred from a rigorous one that did not weight courses to another one that has a moderate amount of grade inflation. So now, despite the fact that my GPA for only the classes that I’ve taken at this school rivals the sal and possibly even the val, I’m only at the top 16%.</p>