<p>My school doesn’t rank at all. They say it’s because there are too many 4.0s I think it could be useful, but only if it’s done right. It may motivate me to work harder, but I can see it hurting a lot of people and making them feel really bad.</p>
<p>On a side not, I think I might get a B in math for the first time in high school. I’m freaking out. My french grade dropped 10% so now I’m going to have a B there too. I probably will keep my A in english, but no guarantees. Hopefully, Econ and History will go up to Bs, but I’m doubtful about History. And my Chem grade is hanging to an A by a thread so I have no idea. It could go either way.</p>
<p>I feel like junior year for me has been an exercise in lowering my expectations. Not because I am not capable, but because its almost impossible to take the rigorous course loads that I’m assuming most people on here take and still have some semblance of a life outside of school. I’m not just speaking from my own experience, but from my classmates’ too.</p>
<p>If my school had class rank, I’d probably have better grades, but only slightly. After all, what’s the difference between a 4.2 and a 4.3? (A+ = 4.3)</p>
<p>So I just found out that I get to go see Swan Lake performed by the Russian Ballet tomorrow night. I am sooooo excited!! And yesterday I got 3 in WYSE English Sectionals and we had our academic honor society induction last night. Got my academic letter and a plaque. Totally makes up for the obscene amount of homework I have :)</p>
<p>As for class rank making people feel bad, if someone is in the bottom 25%, they probably don’t care about grades in the first place, so I doubt they’ll feel bad. If they do care, class rank will be a motivation to move up. </p>
<p>I certainly understand the flaws behind a class rank, but I don’t think they’re bad enough to warrant getting rid of it. The earliest we can get people to compete the better, in my opinion. I think class rank can help that. Interestingly enough, though, my class’s current valedictorian wrote her term paper on why we should get rid of class rank.</p>
<p>I am so happy! My lowest grade right now is a B- … </p>
<p>On the issue of class rank, it would be helpful to know for college, but at the same time, if they are publicly known as in Asia (i.e. Taiwan, Japan, etc.) that leads to intense pressure. So as long as there is some way of not publicizing it, I think it would be okay.</p>
<p>People: do your schools make class rank widely known?
I only know my own class rank because it’s on my transcript. But other than that they don’t tell us until right before graduation. People who haven’t requested a transcript don’t know their rank.</p>
<p>Well there are some people who suffer academically for personal and/or socioeconomic reasons. I think the last thing a person who lost a parent, is homeless, is poor, suffers from a condition/disease needs is to know that everybody is doing better than them. Not really buying the competitiveness argument, especially since that will exist anyways. As you said, the people who don’t care won’t compete to move up. The people who do care will already know how well their peers are doing academically without a ranking system. </p>
<p>I could go on but that would be pointless lol. </p>
<p>Also I got an A (95%) on my APUSH exam!!! This is my first ever A on an APUSH exam (I always get Bs and occasionally Cs). My grade in APUSH jumped from an 87% to a 90%. 3 more percentage points till I have an A in the class. So happy right now!!!</p>
<p>I suppose high schools could just send out a report to colleges with the number of students at the school with 4.0s, 3.9s, etc. Then colleges would know if there was grade inflation but there wouldn’t have to be class rank.</p>
<p>Congrats, TinnyT!
I was so happy when I got my first A on a test in APUSH this year.
Sometimes I’ve regret taking the class, but our teacher makes it so wonderfully interesting, I think it’s been worth it.
Honestly, the DBQs were murdering me for quite a while. I’m awful at timed writing.</p>
<p>Class rank is probably the least advertised statistic in our school. Many people don’t even know that we have class ranks.
It’s based on unweighted GPA anyways, so eh.
One of my friends has a 3.99 GPA and he’s ranked 11, so that means there are 10 people with 4.0s in our class.
Who knows how many others are tied for other spots.</p>
<p>At my school ranks aren’t publicly known, but we all kind of know each others. </p>
<p>While I’ve never been through a tragedy that would cause my grades to suffer, I have a feeling seeing someone seeing their own rank is not going to make their situation any worse. Everyone is different I suppose, but if someone’s grades are failing, the fact that his or her grades are failing would probably make them upset anyway. The rank isn’t going to make it any worse. </p>
<p>I just don’t think we should take away something that can give the kids at the top a sense of accomplishment because it <em>might</em> hurt some kids’ feelings. I mean why don’t we get rid of the honor roll, NHS, ACTs, SATs, sports, plays, and anything else that some will achieve at and others won’t. We can’t hide kids from disappointment and failure forever, everyone will experience it.</p>
<p>If kids are at the top they will most likely know they are at the top. Their grades are enough to give them that sense of accomplishment. I just don’t like the idea of education being a competition. Kids go into other activities with the intent to win. Kids go into school with the intent to learn. For some, learning means making mistakes. But because of those mistakes they are ranked lower even though they are learning more from that than some kid who was taught how to take a test. Meh…not worth arguing anymore though. We obviously have different views which is fine. :)</p>
<p>Leaving for Paris in 7 hours. EXCITED!!! :D</p>
<p>We get our ranks on Naviance twice: 3rd Q of junior year & 2nd (?) Q of senior year. </p>
<p>Ranks aren’t publicly known except for the val and sal because they make it obvious. Generally the top 10/15ish care about ranks, while the rest don’t. That said, none of the top 10 know who 7, 9, and 10 are (aside from themselves, obviously).</p>
<p>side note: just got an 800 CR on a practice test. yessssss!
…now to bring up math.</p>
<p>In my experience (of people complaining about class rank), most of the people who get hurt feelings over class rank are the people who have high ranks that aren’t in the top ten or valedictorian or whatever they felt was necessary to consider themselves accomplished. The people in the lower ranks don’t care as much. (A lot of times they care about improving their grades, but it’s not because of class rank.)</p>
I think I might get a B in math for the first time in high school. I’m freaking out. My french grade dropped 10% so now I’m going to have a B there too. I probably will keep my A in english, but no guarantees. Hopefully, Econ and History will go up to Bs, but I’m doubtful about History. And my Chem grade is hanging to an A by a thread so I have no idea. It could go either way.</p>