<p>I don’t think most students even know where they fall %-wise. At the schools my kids attended the grades were never discussed among the students, as far as I know. At the end the top 10% will know, because they are invited into Honor Society. The rest just know that they did not make the top 10% I guess.</p>
<p>If you were a “C-student” at Yale, and managed to graduate, no one would probably ever know that you were a “C-student”, unless you became the president of the USA.</p>