what if my HS does not rank students??

FWDAD
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:45:03 +0000

I have two daughters currently in high school, one in a prep school and one in a public high school. The prep school does not rank at all and the the public high school only ranks the top fifteen percent. I assume the reason the public high school has limited ranking is that in Texas kids in the top ten percent of their class are guaranteed a spot at the University of Texas (but not necessarily in the college of their choice) and students in the top fifteen percent of their class are guaranteed a spot at Texas A & M. In listening to administrators talk about the no ranking policy they believe that it is in place to help students, not hurt them. More interesting is the discussion about “weighting” AP and advanced classes, compared to regular classes and the decision that students may make to try to obtain a certain grade point or rank by not taking the more challenging classes.