Another Valedictorian Dilemma

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I don’t understand the scheduling either.
But choices should be made regardless of rank.
OP has disappeared so we can’t really ask what the two schedules would look like.

87: two absolutely identical candidates ? One #1 and one #5? Both are in. The kid who made it by the skin of his teeth is bumped out. In Texas, kids make it into ut because they deliberately took whatever would bump their rank. When rank is unweighted , it means kids who took lots of lightweight classes. These have zero priority over students with curriculum rigor when it comes to major choice, within reason (IE., in context).