<p>A GPA of 3.5 or up is like top 2% in our school</p>
<p>Unweighted – About 3.85. Weighted – About 4.3. This would be the absolute minimum.</p>
<p>I go to a semi-competitive public school with class sizes around 380. To be top ten percent weighted, students need 4.3+. To be top ten percent unweighted, students are lucky slip into the demographic if they have one or two semester Bs (which might put the number at 3.9). Typically 15-25 seniors graduate with 4.0 UW.</p>
<p>To be in the top 10% at my school, you’d need something north of 3.9.</p>
<p>My teen spent 9th grade at small private 60 student class, got 2.9 gpa, but school totally did not rank.</p>
<p>When transfer occurred at beginning of 10th grade to public school, the private school GPA was thrown into the public school 9th grade class (where teen never step foot) of 700+ students, hence diluted 10 fold and starting Class Rank was culled from that. </p>
<p>What do you people think? Fair or not? Tough situation to catch up on because of shear volume of untended ranked 9th grade class.</p>
<p>3.7 is top 10% at my school. No weighting.</p>
<p>@mustang
Isn’t it kinda messed up that 1 in 19 students will go through that school without ever getting anything but an A? To me, that shouldn’t happen even if you take an easy schedule, let alone an AP or Honors one. I don’t think anyone has had a 4.0 UW at my school in ten or more years.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t have weighted GPAs, and a 4.0 would be required to be in the top 10 percent. </p>
<p>Of course, that’s a ridiculously easy thing to do here- the AP teachers multiply averages by 1.08, so a 93 in any advanced placement class would translate to a 100 on our transcript. And my school’s AP classes aren’t very challenging to begin with</p>
<p>Our high school appears similar to Kudryavka’s.</p>
<p>An unweighted GPA of 3.6 will put you in range for the top 15%.</p>
<p>GPAs are calculated using only major subjects, Math, Science, Foreign Language, Literature, History/Social Sciences.</p>
<p>The school does not rank students nor weigh GPAs. They leave it up to the colleges to assess the calibre of the applicant, using the school profile and history with the school’s students.</p>
<p>i have a 3.9 UW, 4.2 W and im like 7/380ish 
For top 10%, it probably be like 3.9 W</p>
<p>My D’s situation is a bit like Giveherwingsmom’s D. Her previous school was in England, where they don’t make such a big deal about “in process grades” in younger (read non-test years, or Years 9 and 10). Over there it’s what you score on your Year 11 exams that counts. So a B in Religious Studies there isn’t a huge deal. But it hurt her in her cumulative GPA once she came back to the states. I do hold out some hope in what I heard about selective colleges recalculating GPAs to only count core classes. But when it comes to the rank part, the damage has already been done…</p>
<p>My school is graded pretty harshly…a 93 weighted average will get you top 10%…with AP’s weighted 5 points more, honors 3. But its virtually impossible to get an A in any AP, or most math classes.</p>
<p>My school is strange in the sense that, out of the top 10%, only 2-3 students have a 4.0 UW GPA. That being said, I am #6 and my GPA is around a 5.13 and #20 is around 5.0. The top 10%-15% are very close while the other 80% are separated by a huge margin.</p>
<p>It’s about a 4.2 weighted to make it in to the top 10% at my daughters school. (Class size 144 students).</p>
<p>When I transfer schools, unw gpa would be a 3.8 and w gpa would be a 4.4. The school ranks weighted GPAs and only counts core classes, not electives. My class would be about 500 students and the school is rated a 7/10 on greatschools.org. I’m having a little hope that I would make the top 10%, but I’ll have to talk to the school counselor to truly find out</p>
<p>I have a 4.26 (3.96 UW), and I’m 14/543. The #1 in my class has a 4.5ish? Since my class is so big, it’s probably around 3.85 UW, 4.1 W.</p>
<p>My D school doesn’t weight. She has a 4.0 cumulative and just finished Jr. Year. She is ranked #1 out of 199 or 201. (not exactly sure but is very close to 200) She is tied with about 5 other kids who also have 4.0 cum. They will sort it out end of senior year by factoring act/sat score to see who is valedvictorian. This is the first er they will do this.</p>
<p>To answer your question, I would say less than a 3.8 and you are out of the top 10%. There are always about 15- 20 kids on 4.0 list every nine weeks in her class. Though only 5 have never had a B. So I think in her public school, there is a very narrow range for top 10%.</p>
<p>I’m in the same situation as you, transferring from a private to a public school. At my very competitive private school I took all the honors classes available to me and had a 4.01 and was ranked the 1st in my class of 302 students. Unfortunately it seems that at my new public school to be in top 10% you need at least a 4.5, so I’ve been demoted from valedictorian to top 30% 
Hope it doesn’t happen to you.</p>
<p>At my school, with each class around 800 students, a 4.8 on a 5.0 scale makes up the top 10%. I currently have a 4.92 GPA at #61/730. </p>
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<p>^Last time I checked, I had about a 4.8 on 5.0 W (which I think determines GPA) and I’m #10.</p>
<p>Then again, my class isn’t very competitive.
If I graduated with the class of '11, I wouldn’t have even been in top 10%.</p>
<p>Really? Wow! I’m pretty sure almost all of us who are in the top 10% are super close in GPA. The ones who are #1-10 are surely over a 5.0. </p>
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