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

bovertine
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:41:16 +0000

I’ve got to say a lot of this bewilders me. My own kid is a mediocre student and his school didn’t rank so I don’t have experience from that angle.

But IIRC from my own youth, if you were the type of kid who was earning all or mostly As in your classes they would almost automatically recommend you for all the honors and AP (well, it was 1974, we had one AP class at our school but a lot of honors classes). I know my school ranked (no weighting) because it is on an old transcript my mom saved. But they never told us about it and I am pretty sure nobody strategized about it.

Why would a kid who had a 4.0 unweighted not be taking mainly honors and AP classes? I don’t get it.