General, rambling complaint about class ranking...

missymargaux
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:58:52 +0000

I go to a relatively small public school (about 120 in my class) that is one of the top in the country, and although I don’t know my class rank, I know I’m definitely not in top 10%.
I have a 3.7 unweighted, and something around a 4.8 weighted, and I’m not even sure if that is enough to get me into top 20% (although I think it is…)

My problem with this is, of course, that universities weight class rank so highly, when it just isn’t fair-- if I had copped out and gone to my home school, I would very easily be top 10%, if not top 5%.
It just doesn’t seem fair that I might be penalized for challenging myself, rather than rewarded.

Anyone else agree or have any other thought?