<p>I go to a college-high school in Texas. Basically, our school only rank the top 10%, so for those who are not 10% will not be rank. I'm in the top 12%, so I won't be rank. I will be graduating with my high school diploma and my Associate degree by the end of my senior year. My GPA is 3.75 and I have a lot of extracurricular activities and awards. My SAT score is average. My question is, how would my school not ranking me affect my chance to get into the college I want? I was thinking of University of Austin. I have good grades.</p>
<p>For 2014 auto admit at UT is actually top 7% so it wouldn’t help you much to be ranked top 12%. You can still give UT a shot and note - your chances are affected by your intended major. Take a look at the admitted students stats for 2012:</p>
<p>[2012</a> SAT/ACT Scores | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/scores]2012”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/scores)</p>
<p>You may qualify for auto academic admit at Texas A&M because they will calculate your rank even if your school doesn’t officially rank you. </p>
<p>admissions.tamu.edu/gettingin/waysAdmitted/academic.aspx</p>
<p>UT will calculate a rank also. Your calculated rank will be used in their academic index for holistic review.</p>
<p>All colleges will calculate an approximate class rank based on your grades and the School Profile they receive from your GC.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t rank and I was worried that would effect my daughter’s application for the University of Iowa but it didn’t. Most college admins I’ve asked tell me they will look at the HS transcript and test scores and will figure out where you fit. Hopefully this holds true for the other colleges my DD is applying to.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered how they assign a class rank? How granular did they get? Every 5%? 10%? 25%?</p>
<p>I’m sure each college has their own method.</p>
<p>More and more high schools are getting rid of class rank. It gets crazy in large competitive high schools where the top students are separated by thousands of a point!
Colleges have no trouble evaluating students who apply without a class rank. Also colleges vary greatly on how much class rank is a factor. You can see this by looking at section C of the Common Data Set for any school that publishes it.
My son’s school did not provide ranks at all. Just unweighted and weighted GPAs. They did provide the GPA of the highest ranked student for comparison.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your replies!</p>