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Trying to put together a player profile for my DD. Have seen some nice formats but can anbody post templates for use?
I attended a college seminar at our high school for college prep juniors the other evening. Our high school is no longer calculating class ranking, and a lot of the major colleges are gradually following suit, putting CORE GPA, ACT and SAT scores as primary academic gauges. Why? Because class rank is simply too subjective. It's similar to using a grading curve - success becomes a factor weighted towards the lowest common denominator. If your school has a small and "underachieving" student body, your child has a much greater opportunity to be in the top percentile of class rank. However, for students taking more advanced classes in a college prep geared program, that curve takes a different shape.
Think about it. Let's say your profile says you're in the top 3% of the student body, but you list an ACT composite score of 21. What does that tell a coach? Now if that same ACT was 27 or 28, you'd have a statistic that makes sense.
Not to be harsh, but if class rank was all that important and made a difference in whether my kids got accepted into a college program or not, I would have sent my kids to an inner-city school long ago.
Our HS does not calculate Class Rank either. It's a political thing at our school, lots of great grades can make a pretty good GPA seem mediocre via rank.
But, yes, most on-line and paper profiles ask for it. N/A .... all the way!
Im a little confused at how class ranking is political........... its numbers and numbers dont lie, your gpa vs how many kids are in your school.......... its no different than your next grade testing comparing you to every other student in your grade telling you where you stand............. life was so much friggin easier years ago lol
The ranking is not comparing st agnus school of the poor to rich boy central,,,,,,,, the ranking is done per individual, per school.......... its not to rank your school compared to others but to let a college coach know how you rank compared to your piers. It can help with academic money. and in the end thats what matters....