<p>I go to a competitive highschool in nj… where more than 50% of the kids are indian… and where people ranked 40 have 4.0 uw… 4.3 w… this is totally not fair.</p>
<p>That’s what you get for living in NJ.</p>
<p>it’s grade inflation, not living in NJ…we live in top NJ district and #40 rank has 3.5UW, 3.8W</p>
<p>that being said, if top colleges LOVE your high school, it won’t really matter…</p>
<p>Story of my life. And I live near Princeton too. Lots of Indians and Asians. Super competitive. No ranking, although for you I’m guessing grade inflation as well.</p>
<p>at my public school district, a .001 will change your ranking at least 10 places.</p>
<p>Parents had sued my public high school about GPA calculations for valedictorian. Student A played a sport but had an agreement with the counselor that the grade for playing the sport wouldn’t go on her transcript. Student B’s parents insisted that it be counted in Student A’s GPA - as an unweighted course, even with a 100 it would lower Student A’s GPA - and make Student B the valedictorian.</p>
<p>And that was only 1 of the 2 suing incidents that I know of regarding valedictorian at my school district. The other was this girl couldn’t take an regular arts because she was allergic to the chemicals or something, and would have gotten vali, but another parent sued because their son/daughter had to take the regular course, and even though they got a 100, had a lower gpa.</p>
<p>you’ve gotta love those indians :D</p>
<p>Well, I’m glad I live far away from New Jersey, in a place where nobody knows their class ranking (nor do they care).</p>
<p>Sounds like grade inflation. At my NJ school, our Val usually has ~99-100 GPA, never higher and we send 20+ to Ivy’s a year out of a class of 400. The average admitted WGPA at our school for Harvard is 96.8.</p>
<p>Work harder then ;)</p>
<p>put poison in their curry and say shamalamadingdong. O_O Just kidding, but yeah, just work harder and do your best. If the college knows how competitive your school is than just work as hard as you can to go where you want.</p>
<p>That’s life, kid.</p>