<p>Well I'm basically getting ready for my sophomore year, and I was wondering if there wer any chances of improving my rank to, let's say, above third... or maybe even fifth. (I'm currently eighth). I really want to go to Yale. Eight seems doubtful even to me...</p>
<p>Is this too big of a hope? I heard rankings don't change much from freshman year, is that true?</p>
<p>NO YOU’RE SCREWED</p>
<p>9th grade rankings don’t mean ****</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. Once you get to junior year and everyone starts taking even more advanced classes and AP and get involved with jobs and whatnot, their grades will drop too. So as long as you don’t, you’ll be in great shape. You 2 whole years before you have to worry about that, it’ll be easier than you think. I’ve seen a lot of people drop their junior year. One year, my friend was in the top 20 (not sure exactly where, but towards the bottom I’m guessing) and then the next year (beginning of junior) dropped to 24th. Now as a rising senior, I know even more people who have struggled and I’m sure have dropped in rank as well. This one girl I know who always got As and the occasional, rare B got straight Cs in honors math and failed most of our tests.</p>
<p>Percentage is more important than your actual rank. 8/500 is much more impressive than 8/30. Equally important is the classload that you take; colleges look at your transcript along with your rank and GPA. So yes, your rank can improve, but I would worry more about taking challenging classes and boosting up the GPA as a whole.</p>
<p>From freshman year to sophmore year (ie the position you are vs the person you are in next year), I went up 40 spots. But only went from top 10% to top 7% ):</p>
<p>Point is that lots of people go down and it’s easy to go up after freshman year. After sophmore year it’s not as easy so make sure you don’t mess up.</p>
<p>nope. too late, its the end of the world for you now.</p>
<p>Ranking was nothing but a bunch of bull at my high school. I took as many AP’s as I could but they didn’t rank them any differently from the regular classes. Smart kids got lazy and went down the retarted route and made perfect scores in all their classes. Even though they got ahead of me in the rankings, 95% are going to no name colleges.</p>