<p>For schools that have like 90%+ in the top 10%, other than like being a URM (which I am) does it take to get noticed to make up for a ranking issue (like top 25% of like 170 kids)?</p>
<p>If 90 plus percent are in the top 10 and it's a top school which has 20 plus percent minorities, it will really hurt. Don't forget there are also athletes, legacies and children of the very wealthy and connected who make up the bottom of the class. If your high school is not super competitive, don't expect to get into these schools without an extraordinary EC.</p>
<p>It's a medical magnet high school; I consider it competitive as hell, but I dunno.</p>
<p>It sucks not to be in the top 10% I'm in the top 13% and I always wonder if I had not slacked off my freshmen year I would have definetely been in the top 10%. There was only one African-American in the top 10% I could have been the second.</p>
<p>magnet school is like a school that specializes in one concentration</p>
<p>ours is obvious medicine and the allied health system</p>
<p>it's competitive because it's like the best public high school in the whole city (San Antonio, TX) </p>
<p>my home high school, the one I should be going to is easy and has A LOT more people, so my rank would've been higher</p>
<p>I took the harder route, rather than the easy route.</p>
<p>A highly competitive high school has an average SAT of over 1300 old and sends over 20% to ivies and top colleges. A super elite high school has SATs close to 1400 and sends 25% plus to ivies, S, M, etc.</p>
<p>If it takes only a 90% avg to get into the top 10% it isn't considered a top school. Sorry :-/. My schools a good school, not the best in the state, but ok and it takes at least a 92.5 unweighted to get in top 10%.</p>
<p>Thats a ridiculous assessment. Its much more likely that your school grades more leniently than his.</p>
<p>Find me a top public high school then that doesn't have their top 10% starting at like 94%+</p>
<p>Although I am not saying you are wrong...it is entirely possible</p>
<p>I agree with Ranks. That idea makes no sense at all. All high schools grade differently.</p>
<p>And where are you getting 90% from? He's talking about colleges that have 90% of students within the top 10% of their HS class.</p>
<p>huh...good call on that. good thing i can read well.</p>
<p>If it counts for anything, my school's not competitive at all, I have a 97%, and am at the very bottom of the top 10%.
Ridiculous.</p>
<p>That's how they determine if your school has grade inflation or not, if it's not one of those competitive high schools</p>
<p>^ So if a school is competitive, there's no grade inflation? Seems kind of strange to me..</p>
<p>Is that UW?</p>
<p>Completely UW.</p>
<p>Ok...you have to have a 98.5+% to be in the top 10% here.</p>
<p>It isn't inflated...weighted GPAs are brought to the 4th decimal...and literally the thousandth place differs ranks.</p>