I don’t want to sound annoying worrying over a little thing, but this really bothers me. Sure class rank and GPA are just numbers; I don’t want to sound obsessive, but I’m upset because I feel like my hard work is going unrecognized. I don’t know if I can do anything to fix my rank. I’ve mathematically calculated everything. Like I could be rank 1 if my 0 period classes were pass/fail, but at the time I didn’t know I could take classes for pass/fail and my counselor can’t change that status anymore, so here goes the rest of my rant.
In 9th and 10th grade, I went to a competitive high school where I was ranked 14/595, and at my new school, I’m ranked 28/450. It feels unfair because I feel like I deserve a higher rank because my new school is soooo easy. I am on top of all of my classes and peers, but because I got 2 B+'s freshman year at my old school, my rank dropped so much at the new school. Seriously, my junior year here with 6 AP’s and only 2-3 hours of homework is easier than my freshman year there with 5 hours a night. The AP Bio kids here don’t even take notes for homework but my honors bio class did. I had to do 50 hours of community service there and only 10 here. The grade inflation is ridiculous too, like most kids have near all A’s here, while in my old school, it was not uncommon to hear B’s and C’s. I had to read 6 or 7 books a year in my old school, but in my AP English class here, we haven’t read a single book.
It is that much easier, so it feels unfair to me because I know if I went to this new school since freshman year, I would be rank 1. I don’t want sound like an elitist snob but it just really annoys me that I had to work 3x harder than these kids at my new school only for them to have a higher GPA.
What upsets me even more is that the actual rank 1 girl here will take 10 AP classes throughout high school and I will take 15 AP’s and still have a lower cumulative GPA just because of those 2 B+'s and 0 period classes in 9th and 10th grade. Like, I had to wake up at 6 in the morning, get an A in an extra class and still have my GPA lower? Sigh…
P.S. Sorry this is under the wrong category. I couldn’t find another appropriate category.
Any way you can explain it to your counselor and work something out? Honestly, it’s within their best interests that you get into a good college. But if not, your rank is still good.