anyone know the way class rank is handled if your school doesn’t rank people?
<p>some schools that don’t rank use quartiles, quintiles, deciles instead…</p>
<p>Some schools give a grade distribution which colleges and Universities find very appealing; this distributions let the colleges know, how many grades were the A, B, C, or D range. The school I work for divides our distributions into even smaller increments and colleges love it.</p>
<p>Also, some schools can say something in their academic profile like, “the number of kids in the class that had a grade over 90”. This is what the boarding school that I work for does. This year, our profile says that 24 members of the junior class had an average of 90 or above; even though we don’t rank or compute a GPA, including this info allows schools to look at the grade distribution, look at how many kids got over 90 and look at the average numerical grade of the student in their solids (5 core subjects of: Math, English, Science, History and Language) </p>
<p>We also put the average grade of the current 12th grade for students in their junior year; this year, our average was up from 83.5 to 85.5-no grade inflation, but just a very strong class-and this 85.5 figure, coupled with the grade distribution and the number of kids with a 90 average, really allows a school to know which quintile a student is in, even though we don’t include this information because we want to create a supporitive and not a rivalry type of culture within our school.</p>
<p>In the GC school report that is part of any admissions package, if your school doesn’t rank, the counselor is asked to put you in a decile.</p>