<p>Especially once you get pretty high up there? I have a senior class of 498 and my rank is 4. I could have been higher had I taken a lunch freshman year, but doing so brought down my Weighted GPA because I had one more class than everybody else.</p>
<p>So, will being ranked 4 make me less competitive? Or is class rank not even that important to schools like the Ivies, NU, Duke, UChicago, etc.?</p>
<p>Class rank is very important at the schools you’ve named, but yours is high enough. You’re in the top 1%. The difference between being #1 and #4 might matter a lot at your high school graduation, but that’s really the only time when it will.</p>
<p>I’d say 4th out of almost five hundred people actually helps you a lot, so you shouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Does rank replace UW GPA when rank is available?</p>
<p>I don’t know, you can always call the adcoms of schools you’re planning on applying to, much more reliable than anything I could provide on that subject. But if it makes a difference, my school’s GPA is on a 5-point-scale and my UW is 5.0, my W is 5.74. The 4/498 is weighted, idk my UW rank.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t use the word “replace,” but since high GPAs at some schools can equal in performance with low GPAs at others, I would believe that colleges take ranking into much more account than they would GPA. But I could be wrong.</p>
<p>What about 3rd out of 140 but I’m 0.6 away from 2nd so by half year I might be second.</p>
<p>it depends…it matters if your school provides it, however, luckily, my school doesn’t rank so it fills out an N/A under rank on my transcript and colleges don’t receive a rank for me</p>