How is Class Rank determined at your child's school?

oldfort
Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:00:02 +0000

D2 school weighted honors by 1.05, APs and IBs by 1.1, except for TOK(1.05). They graded by 0 to 100. D2 was a contender for Val even with 2+ regular classes/yr (photography, art, and local history class for foreigners). I did ask her if she wanted to take “weighted” classes to preserve her GPA. She said no. She did graduate as the Sal for her class, and she was fine with it. The school didn’t rank, other than for Val and Sal. But I guess they do use the GPA to indicate if a student was top 1, 5, 10%…of the class.