<p>Does class ranking mean anything? How much does it matter by?
Is top 20% good enough for a UC?</p>
<p>Depends on college and ranges from little to no importance to the key factor for admission. For the UC's, its importance is twofold for in-state residents. If you are in top 4%, you are entitled to admission to a UC (not necessarily one of your choice) regardless of SAT scores. Also, the overall policy of the UC's is to admit as many of the top 12% as they can. Top 20% means your chances are low.</p>
<p>i do know that in any college book, i believe EVERY UC has at least 95% in the top 10 percent of the class...... i question this, as i cant believe that uc-irvine has more top 10% ppl in the class, than yale university</p>
<p>They do have more because they will take any old top 10% kid from any old school with whatever ECs and SATs that person happens to have. The Ivies are so great because their student population is going to much more widely accomplished, brilliant, and diverse than any UC, even Berkeley. At Yale or Harvard or Brown or Princeton the student are much more accomplished than just their numbers.</p>
<p>So am i basically screwed with a ranking of 20%? Even for ucr?</p>
<p>Stupid question. What is UC and EC?</p>
<p>UC = University of California (e.g. UCLA = Uni of California, Los Angeles; UCSD = Uni of California, San Diego)
EC's = Extra-curriculars</p>
<p>with the exception of elc, class rank is NOT used as an admission criteria to the UCs. (Even if they wanted to use it, they can't since less than half of Calif public high schools rank students.) </p>
<p>Note, that the UC are designed to accept the top 12% of students STATEWIDE, not necessarily per high school. Thus, strength of schedule, test scores, essays, ECs, and other factors (low income, first gen to college, poor performing HS), are used during comprehensive review.</p>
<p>hey bluebayou, are you absolutley sure about that? It does make sense though. But everyone discusses class rank as in a school here.</p>
<p>I've read it in the LA Times (for what that is worth). I do know that the schools in our district and neighboring districts do not rank.</p>
<p>Regardless, if you check on a campus's website for common data set, you'll see where each one shows that Class Rank is not used in admissions decisions.</p>