Class Ranking Questions

Applying to College
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<p>How important is it to be in the top 10% of your class?</p>

<p>Also is your class rank based off weighted GPA or unweighted GPA?</p>

<p>A lot of students at my school take before school music and afterschool drama. They do this for all 4 years, resulting in 8 extra automatic A's(everyone gets an A pretty much).</p>

<p>Also there are a lot of motivated students at my school who take easy workloads.
They take maybe 1-2 AP Classes by Junior Year and these AP Classes are usually joke classes at our school. Do you think colleges put much stock into class weight given the way it can be convoluted and manipulated?</p>

<p>To put this in perspective, I have a UW 3.9 gpa, 3 AP's(Bio, Calc, Lang; not a lot by CC standards but still), and the rest as rigorous as possible.
There are 300-320 students in my class and I bet that I am in the late 20s to early 30s.</p>

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<p>^ Actually 16 Automatic A’s. I forgot about the semester.</p>

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<p>Bumpity Bumpity Bump! I need like 1-2 answers then this thread can fade into obscurity.</p>

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<p>Depends on the school you are applying to.</p>

<p>For example, most Texas public universities become safeties for campus admission if you rank in the top 10% of your class – the exception is UT Austin, where a higher threshold of 8% or 9% applies. But division or major admission is not necessarily guaranteed at that class ranking.</p>

<p>The super selective schools are said to favor class rankings much higher than merely top 10%.</p>

<p>But some other schools (e.g. California public universities) do not consider current class rank at all (though hitting a top 9% GPA benchmark set by previous classes at your high school has some benefits).</p>