Wakefield does not rank.

Yorktown does not rank.

Anonymous wrote:Class rank benefits maybe the top 10 students in a class and potentially hurts everyone else. A great many schools are moving away from it.

So we now live in a world without class rank or SAT scores. Way to go America. Looking good.

Anonymous wrote:Class rank benefits maybe the top 10 students in a class and potentially hurts everyone else. A great many schools are moving away from it.

As in the top 10 students who should get a benefit? The truth is what hurts. Give everyone a trophy.

Class rank benefits maybe the top 10 students in a class and potentially hurts everyone else. A great many schools are moving away from it.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

This is so dumb.

But so are class rankings.

Why are class rankings dumb?

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

I wonder what college admissions thinks when they get 75 #1 ranked Applicants from the same high school

I'm sure the colleges who get that many know exactly how W-L does it. And, that it's to reduce the jockeying for .0001 point differences to get the top rank. It does seem to me they should just say we don't rank but this was their compromise.

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

This is so dumb.

But so are class rankings.

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

I wonder what college admissions thinks when they get 75 #1 ranked Applicants from the same high school

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

Yep. So you could be one of the 250 #1's or #251. There is no #2.

It's crazy. My kid's private is old school and there is one Valedictorian and one Salutatorian. There are 1,100 students.

I was in Ffx Co in the 80s at a high school of 2K and we had a single Valedictorian.

I think grade inflation and everyone gets a trophy colors it.

Anonymous wrote:Is that weighted 4.0?

Yes, weighted. AP, IB, DE classes get the extra point. Intensified (aka honors) do not.

Is that weighted 4.0?

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

Yep. So you could be one of the 250 #1's or #251. There is no #2.

Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

Do the high schools in APS do class rank?