<p>My high school is thinking about getting rid of class rank beacause kids with good grades aren't getting accepted. Ex. a kid that applied to Southern Illinois didn't get in even though he had a 3.00 but wasn't in the top 50%.</p>
<p>So my question is, if this goes through, how would a college look at that?</p>
<p>colleges deal with all kinds of schools and not having a class rank is fine</p>
<p>Alot of high schools do not rank. One rationale is that it penalizes students who are taking the harder honors and AP courses. Colleges can't just look only at the gpa though. Some high schools have 40-50 valedictorians where they all have 4.0's while other high schools grade much harder. Because of this, college admisions look at both gpa and rank. If a high school doesn't rank, they will use a gpa distribution chart available on the high school profile to estimate the applicant's rank. However, I think you are talking more about large public universities. These are very numbers driven. If you have the right SAT score, gpa, and class rank; then the computer will decide who is admitted for the bulk (but not all) of the applicants. For the large public unis, if the hs doesn't rank, then it just doesn't rank, and rank will not be used in the decision.</p>