<p>OK, don’t laugh please, but I am really lost.
We will have a meeting with the GC in a near future and my questions will be answered, but you know, I want to know now:)
So Kid1 got first report card from the new HS.
All A’s
Class rank - 1
Class size - 682
Percentile - 99.853
Cummulative GPA - 4.000</p>
<p>Class rank - are there several kids that are ranked #1? If your GPA is 4.0 are you automatically #1? This is unweighted GPA, I think that school only weights on the official transcript, and what I have in front of me is really a report card.
Percentile - what the heck is that??? How is it calculated.
I do not have access to school profile at this time.</p>
<p>Sorry if the questions are dumb - learning process :)</p>
<p>I think that, until the end of senior year, there can be more than one student ranked 1st in the class. At my son’s school, however, if there are three students ranked 1st, then the ranks of 2nd and 3rd are empty, and the next student is ranked 4th. </p>
<p>If, by senior year, there are still multiple students in ranked spots, then they use the SAT scores and I don’t know what else (someone told me things like unexcused absences are taken into consideration) to divide up the kids.</p>
<p>The percentile can be thought of as the amount of the class whom he outranks. That’s why it’s not 100% - he can’t outrank himself.</p>
<p>A 4.0 doesn’t automatically mean a #1 ranking. Our school does two sets of rankings, one using weighted averages and the other unweighted, but every school district has its own policy.</p>
<p>Yeah - 681/682= 99.853, which would logically indicate to me he is the only one with the perfect GPA, because he couldn’t outrank anyone with the same GPA as him. But the way they do it might not necessrily be logical.</p>