<p>For top colleges, do you have to be incredibly high ranked? I'm talking like top 5% or above, or is something like top 8% (rank 9 of 118) still competitive?</p>
<p>Depends on your school’s overall quality and admission officers experience with its graduates. Your school GC (or Naviance, if you have it) is the best source of info on where students with your profile have historically enrolled. Answer can vary from high-end private schools where 30-50% of class may go to “top” schools to the other end of the spectrum where only the class val is a top candidate.</p>
<p>Yeah, like at my school, if you are in the top 25% you are pretty set as long as you did not fail your SATs</p>
<p>The other high school in my district has had several people go to Ivies each year. I think 3 people were accepted into Stanford ea, and many more got into great colleges. My college is a smaller high school that recently formed. It’s based on the project based learning format the New Tech Foundation emphasizes, and I’m going to be part of it’s first graduating class. It was formed during my sophomore year, and we’re all students who transferred in from the aforementioned high school.</p>
<p>Remember that often times, top schools look at extracurricular activities, essays, etc., and don’t admit solely based on class ranks / grades, so it wouldn’t hurt to apply even if one weren’t at the very top of the class.</p>
<p>^ Agreed; as long as your rank isn’t shabby, I don’t think you should have too much of a problem there.</p>
<p>bump!!!</p>