Do the students in the Top 10 cheat?

mea1997
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:57:46 +0000

At my school, the girl who is #1 in the class cheats. We all know it. She can’t handle not being perfect and has fallen prey to the whole craze of “I need to get into the best college possible so I can brag”. Plus, these cheaters truly don’t ever succeed. They get to college, get caught, and don’t know what to do.
As for the rest of the top 10, most of them have taken advantage of the unweighted GPA system at my school. Every non-AP class is graded on a 0-100 scale, so a class like molecular biology has the same weight as crafts.
I’m 10th in my class and would be much higher if a good chunk of the kids above me didn’t take easy peasy classes like crafts, while I’ve been completing the pltw engineering courses.
Also, what I’ve learned is, colleges don’t truly care about your ranking unless they want to brag that all of their students were in the top 10% of their class or something.