Does this affect my chances to good colleges?

<p>Our school is so dumb... They don't use weighted grades to rank the students. This means that someone who takes no honors/ap courses with a 4.0 gpa is the same rank as someone who took max honors and ap courses and still getting straight A's. Would this affect my chances?</p>

<p>My school ranks students by unweighted grades. I think most schools don't use weighted grades. I'm not sure. I could be wrong.</p>

<p>Perhaps you should contact UCLA undergrad admissions about it. I know that on the application, you list all the classes that you take throughout high school, then GPA's pretty important too.</p>

<p>don't worry about it, my school does not use weighted GPA (it's a district wide policy - my GPA was about 3.93 unweighted and 4.36 or so weighted - my rank was abround 16 out of a class of 675 or so), but i was still able to get into many top schools , top 3 UC's + UCI regents + davis regents, waitlist stanford, cornell and columbia. Keep it as high as you can and work hard in your other areas.</p>

<p>doesn't matter</p>

<p>nope, doesnt matter.</p>

<p>if i recall correctly, UC's dont look at class rankings</p>

<p>I that that they do, at the least in this way- they know who's in the top 4% through ELC, and they know who's in the top 10% or so (nominated but not receving ELC).</p>

<p>Yeah I think they do look at class rankings. They say that people in ELC are guareenteed a spot to one of the UC of their choices. I dunnno if that's true though.</p>

<p>They say a UC, not necessarily of one's choice.</p>