<p>As I have been looking at scholarships that colleges award to accepted students, I noticed that many of the top scholarships have a requirement that involves class rank (ie: top 10%). Is this a really limiting factor? My graduating class is only going to have 30 students (Yes, thirty). So in order to be in the top 10%, you have to be in the top 3. I am pretty sure that I will be ranked 5th. Is this going to hurt my scholarship chances?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>For the ones that have a requirement that you do not meet, I would say class rank hurts your chances 100%. Is that what you are asking?</p>
<p>so the requirements for scholarship are that strict? they wont take into consideration the small size of my graduating class and the rigor of my school?</p>
<p>i'm sure you can either explain your situation, or just give them a rough estimate. Not many people know exactly what their class ranks are. If you're only a few places off, i'm sure it's fine to put yourself in the top 10%.</p>
<p>my daughters graduating class had 18. they didn't rank but the scholarships always asked for rank- I think it does matter- but if you are say 5th- just write it 5/30, instead of saying you are in the top tenth.</p>
<p>coming from a class of 45, yes it does matter for many, especially the automatic ones from universities....I was not in the top 10%, but had the highest ACT score in my class...still wasn't considered eligible for some scholarships...you can check with them, but is best to look for scholarships that will work on your personal strengths...I went for ones that placed importance on ACT scores, GPA and community service... i bekieve I received more scholarships that those ranked higher than me...</p>
<p>Not to give you false hope but my d was like 10.5% and was offered a merit scholarship at school A.
Their website had listed the requirements as X gpa , Y sat , top 10% in-state or top 5% OOS to be considered. We were very pleasantly surprised that she was offered this substantial scholarship as an OOS. Her GPA and SAT were above the requirements and she had many ec's and good recs. Perhaps that overrode the "requirement".
Maybe you will get lucky as well. It definitely made me believe that you should go ahead and apply even if it is a long shot - you never know.</p>
<p>I worry about that also. My D is 7/36. She's in a small school with extremely bright students. I talked to one AD director back east and he stated his school wouldn't even look at it and not to worry. Still I worry myself about other schools.</p>
<p>My son was not initially offered the Singer scholarship at UMiami which required being in the top 1% (he was in the top 2%). A few weeks after being offered the next in line scholarship (don't remember the name), he was invited to the Singer scholarship weekend. After the weekend, he was offered the Singer scholarship - so they ignored the rule. Think his other stats were higher than required so they made up for the slightly lower rank. OTOH, our state schools seem to stick with these requirements very closely Definitely hurts those kids in small classes and those in schools who don't rank. Last yr, knew of kids who were not given ANY scholarship because they needed a rank.</p>