<p>Hi, I am considering transferring high schools for my senior year. I have a 4.04 and at my current more competitive school, I am in the top 10%.. But if I were to go to this new school, I would be around 50/250.. which isn't fantastic, and would make me top 20%. </p>
<p>I called UC Berkeley, they say they don't look at rank.. but is this really true?</p>
<p>Also, I am taking a very rigorous schedule for my senior year and plan to get all A's in them. This would bring me way up in this new school's class rank, but for the privates that DO look at class rank, would they include this senior year in that rank? or is it up to the schools to report it how they want.. or is it standard by the colleges? Do you guys get what I mean?</p>
<p>Also, if the class rank is only based on soph/jun years, HOW bad is a 50/250 to top privates ie. usc, UVA, which i know isnt a private but looks at class rank, and other top schools that you may think of ..</p>
<p>i know this was a long thread but thank you for reading and helping.</p>
<p>They technically don't "look" at rank, but they can guess your rank by your grades and courseload. Which is how they end up with 99% of the freshman class in the top 10% of his/her highschool class. </p>
<p>I don't think senior year is usually considered in rank, even though on the transcript, it'll say, "10-12 rank." The only get to see senior grades in the midyear report.</p>
<p>A 50/250 rank, while not bad, isn't good for top schools. You'll notice that the majority of the students at these schools were at least in the top 10%; at top publics, that number tends to be even higher.</p>
<p>so my question is basically , do you think that a UC especially would reject me for the reason that i might bring their average class rank down just by looking at grades?</p>
<p>even though i wouldnt actually say my rank?</p>
<p>im confused. please help</p>
<p>Is there a good reason why you want to transfer? For UC the top 4% of each high school helps.</p>
<p>So for those applications that say 10-12 class rank, are they calculating 5 gpas into that?</p>