<p>How important is class rank?</p>
<p>I'm talking if you have the average+ ACT score, decent gpa, VERY rigorous curriculum, and school is not at ALL a feeder school.</p>
<p>Opinions?</p>
<p>It seems pretty important. The super majority of Ivy admits are at least top 10%.</p>
<p>If it’s an official class rank, it is very important. You have very limited chances if you’re not 10% - you effectively have to be either an athlete or a URM.</p>
<p>aw, crap. :(</p>
<p>If the high school is “not at ALL a feeder school” and it provides official ranks, a top 4 or 5 rank or within the top 2-3% would probably be expected bar any significant hooks.</p>
<p>@MrMeursalt, well the thing at my high school is that no one really takes AP classes…like they’re cutting ap chem cause there are four kids in it. most kids take like 4 aps in high school. i took risks, i took like 6 and i was the first kid to take calc as a junior…so yeah. nonhonors are weighted 1.05, honors are 1.1, ap are 1.15…</p>
<p>that’s just the breaks I guess, it is unfair yes, but at the end of the day, although it might sound harsh, had you got the A’s in your AP classes, it wouldn’t have mattered. Now I totally agree that honors classes aren’t nearly as hard as an AP but like I said, its just tough luck. I don’t think you can blame the school system for that or your peers. The system is set up technically for APs to give the highest rank, and your peers can’t really be faulted for trying to game the system. At my school, only APs are weighted, so it works out for the better.</p>
<h1>96% in top 10th of graduating class</h1>
<h1>100% in top quarter of graduating class</h1>
<p>It looks like top 10% might be pretty important.</p>
<p>That is skewed though, because, keep in mind the majority of schools no longer rank.</p>
<p>I believe 17% of students came from un-ranked schools. Don’t remember where I saw that figure.</p>
<p>^ I remember seeing that statistic too.</p>
<p>i would just be really bummed, cause i have a very strong application - if class rank got me rejected from penn. like, i looked up the top 10% from last year, 34/36 of them had never taken more than 2 AP classes and are going to university of maine/university of new hampshire/the occasional to northeastern, bates, colby/LACs in new england (none to like, williams/BC/amherst).</p>