<p>My 10th grader recently brought home a “credit check”–which included GPA and rank. S has a weighted average of 4.15 and is barely in the top 20% of the class! (This is an excellent suburban high school–one of top publics in state).
Either there is a lot of grade inflation going on (the classes don’t seem easy), or there are a lot of really serious and/or grade-grubbing students. Probably both. I agree with weighting grades–the honors classes are so much harder and so much more work, so they should be worth more.</p>
<p>BTW, I am not at all worried about my kid’s rank. He is unlikely to apply to super-selective schools, and is likely to have test scores in top 1-3%, so rank won’t make any difference for him.</p>