<p>I have a question in terms of class rank... I'm literally right outside the top 10% for my high school. My school does not rank, but it will report my GPA to be in the top 15% for the school. How negative of an impact will this have on admissions, or what? Its not like I'm just in the top 50%. I'm not really looking to apply to ivies, but I am looking at some public schools where 94% of kids are in the top 10%... and being OOS for them makes it worse.</p>
<p>My school is pretty competitive for a public... I have a 3.75 W GPA and a 3.5 UW. (using the system with A=4 B=3 etc... I hate this system because my schedule is so rigorous and my grades are right beneath an A for ones where I do not have an A)</p>
<p>I don’t know… in my case, my GPA is about 3.8ish like yours.
But rank 1% so that suggests that my school is hard?</p>
<p>If 94% are in the top 10%, and you are not, chances are extremely low. Much more than 6% of any class are recruited athletes, URMs, legacies and the otherwise connected who comprise the under 10% group.</p>
<p>Eh, I have a pretty solid explanation as to why my grades slipped after freshman year (Not something that I really want to share with an adcom though… so any advice?). I don’t know… And I’m barely outside the top 10%. So I dunno how they’ll view it. My schedule is really the most rigorous offered (8 APs total in 2 years) and I’m not a tortoise who spends his life studying lol.</p>
<p>I got a 2100 SAT which is above average for most of the schools I’m looking at, and UMich lists class rank and GPA as “considered” rather than “important” or “very important”. (This is odd considering this is the school with 94% being in the top 10%). Obviously, I realize OOS standards are higher.</p>