<p>I've just found out that I'm not really as much in the top 10% as I previously thought I was. My GPA is currently a 3.7, however I just noticed that many of those kids who took the easy classes at my schools have 95's+, and there are enough of them to just SLIGHTLY push me out of the top 10%. However, next year I'm going to strive hard to beat those kids w/ easy classes gradewise. If however I don't, how important the class rankage in this to colleges? I take the hardest courseload offered along with self-study AP's and hopefully great SATs, but this Class Rank thing has me pretty ****ed. I hate those stupid kids with their easy classes, as almost 90% of those ppl in the top 10% are ppl who take the easiest possible classes.</p>
<p>Here are some numbers from Paul Attewell's report for the Ivy League (centering on Darthmouth) in around 2000 or so. The first number is the SATI CR score. The second is a SATII score. The third is class rank by raw number. The fourth is the probability of getting in.</p>
<p>assuming that those ranks are people from a school from the same number of students, then that would be helpful. is that the assumption we are supposed to make? not criticizing, just trying to get a perspective.</p>
<p>No. The point is that the elite Ivies are really not all that interested in you if you aren't at or very near the top of your class, regardless of percentage. Obviously, schools with class sizes of 20 or so graduating seniors will be treated differently than those with 800 or so. </p>
<p>Attewell made a very strong, quantitative case for high performing high schools to exclude class rank from transcripts because most elite schools seem to do a very poor job of accounting for the degree of competition.</p>
<p>Several state flagship universities now admit based on class standing without regard to how good the high school is. That is, they could accept the top 12%; your high school could be number 1 in the state; you could be in the top 15%; and you would not be admitted.</p>
<p>Actually I just checked again and I'm hanging exactly at the last part of the top 10%, I had accidentally seen my current class as being 400 instead of 445, which then the top 10% includes me (~43 = me). I still have one year to go though (junior year) im which im going to go crazy to raise my GPA and hope that those college-prepatory teachers knock out those kid's grades. =D</p>
<p>I also noticed too that almost everyone in my AP class (the only AP class offered in sophmore year and us 18 were the only ones taking it) wasnt ranked in the top 10% either o_O, except for about 4 people, including me.</p>