Just lost my top 10% ranking- Is this fair?

halcyonheather
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:36:37 +0000

Colleges collect a lot of information to determine how challenging your school is overall, but they don’t usually have any way of knowing how difficult your individual classes were. I think the idea is that it balances out in the end; each person will have easy teachers sometimes and difficult teachers at other times.
You shouldn’t get so upset about this. You’ve probably learned more than the kids in the easier classes, and you have more of an idea of what college-level work is like (I mean, colleges have grade inflation too, but even then most of your grade comes from tests).