<p>Dang!!! I have a 3.65 GPA and that barely gets me into the top 50% at my public high school. The average SAT is around 1200 in a class of over 700 students where almost everybody takes the test. I may not be in the top 10% but that doesn’t mean that I don’t work hard!! I have 4 AP classes this year…physics, calculus, statistics, and Gov. I work much harder than many of the top 10% students who only take super easy classes just to keep their GPA up…and I mean SUPER easy. I don’t think that being in the top 10% of your class actually means all that much if it doesn’t take into consideration what the actual classes taken are. And I will have to disagree with many of the parents in this thread…top 10% does not mean that you work hard…it can easily mean that you are slacker more interested in how you look on paper than in actual learning. I would never give up my B’s in tough classes for an A in computer tech or math applications. So those kids automatically get in but I would have to go into an applicant pool and compete for any remaining spots… Not fair!</p>