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Applying to College
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<p>What if your school doesn't rank?
How does this factor in admissions?</p>

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<p>Your counselor will still put down what percentile of the class you’re in. Furthermore, colleges can figure out your rank based on the other students who are applying from your school, and so on.</p>

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<p>How specific are the percentiles?</p>

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<p>i think that GPA is more important than rank.
if you have a 4.3/4.4 i’m pretty sure they know that your one of the top in your school
i wouldn’t worry about it</p>

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<p>try to be val or sal, your school only ranked 2 people .</p>

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<p>That’s not always true, what absent said. Some schools don’t rank and they won’t put down any percentile. My high school did not rank past the top 10%, so if you were not in the top 10% they would right down “school does not rank” and leave it at that. Colleges also cannot figure out your rank from other students who are applying from your school – they can only figure that out if EVERY student in your graduating class, or the majority of them, are applying. If 5 students from your school apply to Yale, Yale can’t necessarily figure out where you stand on the basis of those five – you could all be outstanding, or all terrible, or you could range the gamut.</p>

<p>Besides, your GPA - as was mentioned - is more important than your rank. Colleges use class rank to put your GPA into context. If you have a 3.6 but you only rank in the bottom 50% of your class, they know that your school has crazy grade inflation. If you have a 3.6 and are in the top 10% of your class (like me - because few classes were weighted at my high school) then they know that you are an outstanding student in comparison to your peers and that your 3.6 actually means 3.6.</p>

<p>Colleges won’t hurt you for things that you have no control over. You can’t control which classes your high school offers, or whether they have certain sports teams or clubs, or whether they rank you in your class.</p>