<p>Two weeks ago I discovered my class rank was 212 out of 612 with a weighted gpa of 4.969. At this point I am worried that many colleges will not view me as a competitive enough applicant. Based on these numbers what do you think?</p>
<p>That is some SERIOUS grade inflation…</p>
<p>That puts you in the top 35%. How the colleges view that depends on the colleges - if the college typically accepts applicants from the top 10% of their class it will be a problem. If the college typically accepts applicants from the top 35% it isn’t a problem.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call it serious grade inflation… I’d just say that I belong to an extremely competitive class.</p>
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<p>Or some odd weighted GPA formula. Due to different weighted GPA formulas at different high schools, high school weighted GPA is not really of much use when making comparisons outside of your high school.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus My unweighted gpa is a 3.7 and my school uses a 6 point scale.</p>
<p>It depends on your test scores and what sort of colleges you’re looking at… but you won’t be getting into any top 20 schools with that rank though.</p>
<p>Rank matters. If you a school accepted 95+% of its class from the top 10% of high school classes, you aren’t getting in most likely. But other than that, it won’t hurt you with less competitive colleges. BTW, belonging to an extremely competitive class is not an excuse as to why you are not in the top 25% of your class. Maybe your grades aren’t as great as you wanted them to be…it happens to the best of us and you must not let it worry you too much.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus, I agree that many high schools use (as you say) “odd” weighting systems, which end up giving nearly the entire school a weighted GPA over 4.0. I feel those schools are artificially inflating grades to make their students “look” better to colleges (or in other words, using SERIOUS grade inflation). That is why, as I said, colleges and universities take a look at rank to give them a more realistic picture of applicants from that school. But thanks so much for explaining it to me…</p>