<p>I don't see a spot on the application to indicate my class rank. Do the UCs not consider your class rank in making their admissions decisions?</p>
<p>At least at Berkeley, they compare you to other students from the same high school, not just this year but for the past several years. This only works if they have data from your high school (which they do for most California high schools, I'd imagine).</p>
<p>Anyway you can read this which is fascinating:
<a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_houtreport.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_houtreport.pdf</a></p>
<p>I read somewhere on the UC site they do not consider class rank.</p>
<p>What if you don't go to a California school?</p>
<p>Class rank is NOT a consideration for UC admissions -- check out their common data sets.</p>
<p>btw: two years ago the LA Times reported that less than half of the Calif public high schools rank so even if they wanted to use rank, little data exists.</p>
<p>Ken: it IS a great report, thanks for posting. But, if you slog thru it, you'll see that within HS comparisons are relatively few.</p>
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L&S and Engineering applicants who are denied fall admission next compete for spring admission. Then lead readers review the outcomes school-by-school to ensure that applicants from the same school (and from the same family) are treated in a consistent manner. This process yields between 450 and 500 “by high school” admissions. Most are L&S applicants who get shifted from spring admission to fall admission because some classmates with the same or weaker academic records earned fall admission. The remaining one-third of the by-high-school admits are applicants with read scores that implied denial but who are granted a spring admission because classmates with weaker academic records are being admitted. After they receive a spring admission or denial, a few applicants appeal that decision. Some of them win on appeal and either get upgraded from spring to fall or admitted after an initial denial.
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<p>never mind, I see that UC calculates a ranking based on all the apps from that HS. But, yet, the CDS says that rank is not a factor in admissions. Hmmmmm.</p>
<p>If you don't go to a California high school, they aren't going to have a lot of data to go on. </p>
<p>Here is what the Berkeley Freshman Admission flyer describes the school/class ranking they do:
<a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/9258_Info_FreshmanAdm.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/9258_Info_FreshmanAdm.pdf</a>
• your level of achievement in those courses
relative to other UC applicants at your school</p>