<p>I only finished freshman year, so it’s hard to tell. We haven’t really taken any standardized tests and while it’s competitive, it’s still not cut throat. We had about 500-600 students in my class. Our senior class dwindled to 300 by their last year, but I think the class was already small to begin with. I know the top 10 slots are tough, but that’s because I’m an honors kid and basically everyone is my classes fights for that spot. No, not top 10%, top 10. I made it last quarter but just barely.</p>
<p>So top 10% for us is like #50 and up (or below?). Not too difficult. It’s a public school too. Top 10 though (even top 20) can be tough, depending on who you talk to. But is an 18% high school drop out rate high? I just want to see just how ****ty my school is, sometimes it’s hard to tell lol. If that’s high, then I guess that’s why top 10% isn’t hard to make (to me at least).</p>
<p>Right before school ended (sophomore year) I got my teacher to check my rank for me, currently I’m #3 I know who have spots 1 and 2 but I just dont know which one is 1st and which on is 2nd. My UW is 3.92 and my weighted is 5.2 so I guess I’m ok but I need to take some online ap classes to beat out one of my friends (she’s either 1st or 2nd) I know she took some online ap classes to get that rank so that’s what I’m gonna have to do.</p>
<p>At my school it was very difficult to be in the top 10%. The top 10 IS the top 10%. The top 20 slots are insanely competitive with the difference between the top ten spots being less than .01 (I think 1&2 came down to 1 point on a minor assignment…). The next 20 are moderately competitive(1-40 difference is ~.9 with 1 having 5.3+). After about 40, it is pretty easy, but by 40 your already nearing 40% so there isn’t much point. I went to a small school that loses nearly half it’s students by senior year (unsavory locale).</p>
<p>As a general rule, the smaller the school the harder it will be because you don’t have as many scrubs to increase the top 10% to something like 40 or 50 people. Conversely if you go to a small school that isn’t very competitive it easy to get in the top 5% because you will only have 1 or 2 real competitors.</p>
<p>To give you an idea of my school’s competitiveness:
I got a 2220 and 33 and I’m only in the top 30%. I don’t think anyone in the top 40% got below a 2100 and that is considered low… (After the top 40% my school drops off, because the rest of the population isn’t very academically oriented/financially sound)</p>
<p>I go to I’d say a pretty average public school, and at my school it isn’t hard at all to be in the top 10%. I’m a rising junior and as of the end of this past school year I was #7/167, which I believe is like the top 4 or 5%, and with a crappy freshman year my GPA is only a 4.21 W and like a 3.81 UW.</p>
<p>I personally don’t think that it is that difficult at my school. You have to be within the top 20-21 students. I’m somewhere around 6 and I have a 5.0 weighted GPA (out of a possible 6). But I do know that a lot of kids I have classes with are not in the top 10% or even close to it, and I am in all AP and honors classes</p>
<p>Some schools are much more difficult then others, I’m starting at a new school for Junior year so I can’t really talk about my school’s ranking system but at my friends school they’ve had 2 Blyth Cambridge Scholarship winners in a row and I think the valedictorian for this year went to Oxford.</p>
<p>Very easy. I go to a VERY small pubic school. My class is the largest class in 30 years…we have about 100. All the other classes have about 70. There are about 5 students including myself who care about their academics, so 5 other students can get into the top 10 easily :)</p>