<p>How much does class rank affect your likelihood of getting accepted into a college? I'm ranked 4th out of 399 students. I have a 4.0 GPA unweighted, 4.704 weighted as a junior. I'm taking the heaviest course load that I can, and yet I'm not ranked 1st. Will this have a significant impact? Thanks in advance for your replies. I'm freakin' out here!</p>
<p>Colleges usually try to balance this fact by taking more into account your class %. Though, you are just barely, technically, outside of being in the top 1%, so I don’t exactly know how they will view that. It won’t have a significant impact though; they will recognize you are taking the heaviest work load you can, are getting straight As, and are trying your hardest. That plays a much larger role.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it too much, your class rank is fine :). That’s still really high up there!</p>
<p>Yeah, darn my class for not being 400 :/</p>
<p>Your rank shouldn’t make a difference unless you go to a poorly performing high school with no track record of sending students to top-20 schools.</p>
<p>Of a class of about 425 in my top-50 ranked HS, a student around 6/425 was accepted to Yale SCEA while valedictorian was deferred. Student of abt. 12/425 was accepted to Wharton ED while higher ranked applicant was rejected. Class rank matters little when your graduating class is very competitive and your HS is well known, but you need to compare yourself to your school’s overall historical record of sending students to the school you want to go to.</p>
<p>My high school isn’t particularly great; we have sent kids to Princeton, Columbia, etc., but not at an astounding rate. However, my class is super competitive: some kids take Calc 3/4, all the AP Sciences before senior year. I do think I’m doing relatively well…</p>
<p>It depends. Some schools, like University of Texas, really like class rank. Others do not count it at all. Still others count it along with grades or GPA.</p>
<p>Your rank will not hurt you at a single school in the US that wants to accept you.</p>
<p>Yet it’s important to note that the majority of the unhooed accepted at ivies are either the Val or sal of their class.</p>
<p>I know that many schools look at GPA and rigor over class rank any day since class ranking vary too much from school to school.</p>
<p>Class rank is usually barely considered (mostly gpa and test scores are used as more accurate methods). Don’t worry about it. Top 10% will be good enough to qualify you for any school (even ivy league).</p>
<p>If everything else is good, 4 out of 399 won’t knock you out of contention anywhere. As a point of reference, our local public HS had great ED/EA results this year, with 1, 2, and 3 out of 320 getting in at Caltech, MIT, and Yale.</p>
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Seriously misinformed. For top schools, most unhooked applicants need to be in the top 1-2%.</p>
<p>Most unhooked applicants don’t even have a chance. If your ECs, recs, gpa, test scores etc. are solid, top 10% is good enough to be considered. Schools don’t care if you have a 4.0 if there’s nothing more to you. </p>
<p>I wasn’t even in the top 10% gpa wise and I got into Stanford (with a 3.9 uw).</p>