I’m a junior interested in MIT, Caltech, Stanford, CMU, Cornell, and Harvard. I’m ranked 4/473. As long as I’m in the top 1%, do colleges really care what my class rank is?
My friend is an MIT alum and does off site interviewing for them. He said top 10% is what MIT wants.
Check their CDS. For students accepted by top schools, they must be top students at their high school anyway even if the colleges do not consider their class rank.
Not at that level. My son is at Caltech and was top 1-2%. At his school, you need to pull tricks like taking Health and early foreign language classes at the community college to be 1st or 2nd. He wasn’t interested in that.
A college’s Common Data Set, section C7, or its admissions entry on http://www.collegedata.com should tell you in class rank is “very important”, “important”, “considered”, or “not considered”.