<p>Ok, so I have a 94.3 weighted avg. This means my gpa is 4.0 right?</p>
<p>The other thing is though, my class rank is 26/145... How bad is that?</p>
<p>Note that my gpa coming into my junior year was 92.9, so I increased by 1.4 points (quite a difference in my opinion) by the end of my junior year. That's obviously a good sign, right?</p>
<p>I know my questions are rather ambiguous, but I can't think of any way to make it less.</p>
<p>I want to apply to some really good schools, and I just want to know how much they emphasize rank more than gpa or vice-versa.</p>
<p>Your class rank indicates you are well out of the top 10%, which is needed for consideration to top schools (where a majority of admits are vals and sals). With a rank of about 18%, your GPA will reflect that there is plenty of grade inflation, or just plenty of students ahead of you.</p>
<p>Your GPA will always be considered within the context of your school environment- that is why rank is more important than GPA. Really good schools are searching for the top performers in that school.</p>
<p>Also, colleges always use the unweighted GPA for their deliberations. (Weighted GPA is usually used just by your own school for ranking purposes.)</p>
<p>Well, I dropped from rank 35 to rank 26 by increasing 1.3pts (soph to jun, now a senior) in just one year. Would college know that? I mean, just knowing that, you can see how close everyone is lol.</p>
<p>And is it worth submitting college apps after getting my first qtr record, in case of increased gpa/class rank? Or should I just mail not wait and just mail my first quarter grades if anything?</p>