<p>i know that all schools are different. however, my school doesn't do class rank and my guidance counselor won't even give me a grade distribution chart. i just want a rough idea of where i stand. </p>
<p>I’d guess 70-ish/400, if it’s a 3.6 unweighted, and you take full IB/AP classes. Taking non-IB/AP, a 3.6 would likely be around 100 or lower.
Don’t you love grade inflation?</p>
<p>Is this weighted or unweighted? Because our class ranking is all dependent on the weight of AP/Honors classes. I’m pretty sure everybody in top 40 has over a 4.0 (weighted). But a 3.6 unweighted, no APs/Honors whatsoever is probably about ~70/430.</p>
<p>Weight is meaningless across different systems, but my school goes by weighted GPA for rank. My unweighted is ~3.65 but my rank is ~24/394 as of last semester (better this semester, but don’t know exact), thanks to my weighted being high. Public school, 2000 students (junior class makes up for senior class being small). Not very competitive, but grads occasionally get accepted to selective schools (Val got legacy acceptance to BC, top student was a sports recruit at Yale, I got in at ND).</p>
<p>Probably like 100-150ish out of 600? Big range, I know. But I’m pretty sure the top 40-50 have have higher than 4.0s, so I’m making some assumptions here.</p>
<p>Pulled a data point from 2009 from my son’s high school:
4.4 weighted was 25/357 = top 10% (random person who’s resume I found online.)</p>
<p>My son has a 4.3 weighted/4.0 unweighted (out of 4.0). He’s hoping to be top 5% to get into the MSU Honors college but it looks like it will be top 10%.</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t rank, there is probably a reason for that. Your class might be too small and the differences too slight among your peers to make rank very meaningful. This is particularly true of small magnet schools. Schools that don’t rank explain their reasons in the school profile sent to colleges you would apply to, so it won’t hurt you.</p>