<p>Oddly enough, when I checked the California state schools, none of them had any scholarships listed with class rankings…perhaps your experience is different, it doesn’t make it any more right than my experience…</p>
<p>Several of the schools we are looking at do look at class rank and not that you have to have x rank to attend but it gives the school an idea of where you fall in comparison to your classmates and it judges the quality of your school using that and other information. It is important to some schools. In the absence of a class rank, the school profile is used alone. With the reported grade inflation people keep talking about here, it would make sense to use this information to give a more education opinion on the quality of the student. If someone applies with a 5.0 on a 5.0 scale and ranks 47th in their class, that pretty much tells me that everyone gets and A in that school.</p>