Class Rank vs GPA

[emcee squared]

In high school, I had a 3.5 GPA and barely broke the 50th percentile. It was a good public high school, but grades were quite inflated.

In college, physics was a GPA killer. Scoring 30% on an exam was considered passing and it was only curved up to a C.

Honestly, I don't know which matters more, as I didn't have a good GPA or class rank coming out of college.

[strawflower]

Originally Posted by toobusytoday

This thread also doesn't make sense. If I took Calculus, that would be my GPA killer. If my husband took it, he would be knock it out of the park. A subject one won't do well in will be a GPA killer.

Again, how doesn't this poll make sense? The OP is asking which is more important, rank or GPA? And which classes are GPA killers, typically speaking? I'd hope you realize that IN GENERAL, calculus or organic chemistry hurt more GPAs than say, psychology or sociology...?

[strawflower]

Originally Posted by Pitt Chick

Rank and GPA go hand in hand... one is not better than the other.
The higher your GPA, the higher your class rank.

But, it depends on the school. If colleges are evaluating Johnny and Susie, both of whom have 3.8 GPAs, yet Johnny is ranked 100/200 and Susie is ranked 10/300, well then we can see that just looking at the 3.8 is kind of pointless in this case...