<p>The API link posted in the first page says that my school is 9th in the state. How much does that help me?</p>
<p>@SKR:
It depends on the wording. If it says "statewide rank," then your HS is in the top 20% of schools in the state.</p>
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2007 Statewide Rank
This item is for school reports only. On the API Base reports, schools are ranked in ten categories of equal size, called deciles, from one (lowest) to ten (highest). A school's statewide rank compares that school to other schools of the same type in the entire state. The school types are elementary, middle, and high. Each decile contains 10 percent of all schools of that type. A school's statewide rank is the decile where that school's API Base falls compared with the Base APIs of the other schools statewide of the same school type. Special education schools and schools in the ASAM do not receive statewide ranks.
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2007-08</a> APR Glossary-Base API - Academic Performance Index (CA Dept of Education)</p>
<p>evera:</p>
<p>sorry, but don't know what to say since I don't know your HS. But, I do know that the ELC gpa is UNcapped -- the process is fully described on UC's link. You could ask your GC about your elc rank since s/he has all the numbers. But it's really a moot point.</p>
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The ELC program awards a bonus point for UC-certified honors courses. UC-approved honors courses are marked with a yellow star on the high school's Doorways course list. All honors courses are used in calculating the GPA (in other words, the ELC program uses a weighted, uncapped GPA).
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