<p>media center party ^__^ LIBRARY PARTIES! BOOK CLUBS YAY</p>
<p>oh to add to the list of things ppl want, i want and a million dollars and a nobel prize and an unlimited amoutn of food</p>
<p>The thing I don't like about class rank is that my school is that it's an okay school, definitely sends a few kids to top schools (including Ivys sometimes) and the rest go to really good in-state schools, and then the rest go to community college... so overall, it's an above average school, not really good or really bad though. The thing is, my class is so crazy and every single person wants to be valedictorian and I could have a 4.4 (weighted), and still not be in the top 5% even whereas in a different class/year I would be in at least the top 3%! It sucks. Not a well known school either so if adcoms are just going off rank, it will definitely suck.</p>
<p>After reading Gatekeepers, I realize that the adcom reader only uses the GPA and classrank to frame his/her reading of the file... just a guidepost. The reader then dives into the actual courseload. Quickly notes easy classes. Quickly notes difficult courses offered at the school that the applicant avoided, or took :).</p>
<p>Remember, the reader is turned off more than anything by a tough road purposely avoided by the applicant.</p>
<p>So I will say neither Class Rank or GPA are as important as the five minutes the adcom reader spends absorbing your choices with the curriculum of your school. Did you wimp out? Are you a GPA whore? Did you take a risk? Were you lazy? After reading thousands of applications, they discern very quickly how committed you are to challenging coursework.</p>
<p>like everything in this admissions game, it really depends. For highly selective colleges, class rank matters much more if the applicant attends a no-name, podunk HS with a gradating class of <50. At a super competitive HS, with a senior class of 500+, just being in the top 10% can be a big achievement. </p>
<p>But, note, however, that more and more schools are dropping the ranking system. An article in the LA Times reported that less than half of the publics in Calif rank their students.</p>
<p>Its so dumb i am ranked 6th. The 1st and 2nd took all these ap's that none of us even knew was allowed. They did some stupid **** and some how got into like 5 aps as soph. The 3rd took a class at acommunity college and go more wieghted credit. The 4 th and 5th are beating me cause i took more non weighted classes than they did, so even though i got A's in them, it lowers my weighted gpa.. I still took more ap's than them and we all have all a's. So dumb.</p>