| You need to realize that the moment you cross the stage at graduation, no one will ever care what your class rank could have been, should have been, would have been, or actually was.
What is the connection between being first or second or fifth or sixth and your college admissions, scholarships, and future job opportunities? Nothing.
I have friends who got into every prestigious institution they applied to/ earned full-rides with a less-than-perfect GPA/ SAT score, and I have a friends with 4.0/ near-2400 who hardly received anything.
When you look back on high school in ten years, or fifteen, or even as you make plans for that summer between 12th grade and college, what do you want to remember? Being miserable because you allowed for a pointless ranking system to govern your experience? Or do you want memories of laying the foundation of a network of close friends, a group of people you truly enjoy being around and will consider family for the rest of your life?
Seriously, get over yourself. Otherwise, if something like class rank governs your emotions now, you are in for a very unhappy future. |