<p>What it comes down to is that people with high rank love it and people with not so great rank despise it.</p>
<p>im so happy my school did away with rank system... the school got sued becuase of the fued between valedectorians and saludactorians, that they ended up canceling i....:-)</p>
<p>*Valedictorians and Salutatorians.</p>
<p>I'm hoping to be around ~3/800.</p>
<p>So easy to be top 10% at our school (since there are 800 people in our class) that it's really insignificant.</p>
<p>Good at our school is top 3%. (4.3W)</p>
<p>I hope it's not that important...I was #1 first semester senior year, but I dropped to 2 simply because I took more optional honors courses freshman and sophmore year, so my AP weighted courses this first semester didn't have as much affect on my overall GPA as it did on the person tied with me for first...So she's ahead of me simply because I took more classes. Our classes for this year are exactly the same weights and grades.</p>
<p>^^You act like being number 2 is gonna get you booted from college, hoping it's not too important</p>
<p>Well, UPenn posts stats that say 46% of valedictorians accepted, only 35% salutatorians. And what I meant to say is I hope they don't care that my rank went DOWN, even though I still got all A's in my courses.</p>
<p>Yeah, but that 11% could just be that the val took harder classes which looked better or had better ECs, SATs, recs, essays, etc. I really don't think that their 46/35 admittance % will really matter much. AND..it dropped one, no one cares about 1 measly spot. The only reason I'd wanna be val over sal is to show the val you are smarter than her but w/e</p>
<p>Dan you make a good point about Penn's statistics. People should look at those stats before they say "anything in the top 10% is fine" because it really isn't. I believe those in the 6th-10th percentile are accepted at Penn at a rate of ~10%. That's nothing to get your hopes up over...</p>
<p>Yeah, I think "rank doesn't matter" speech that they give you at the info sessions is kind of like the "we don't do quotas" speech...a bunch of bull...Maybe there isn't a big difference between 1,2, or 3, but you can't tell me that rank is not important at all...</p>
<p>your application will be considered as a whole.</p>
<p>dont worry too much about ranking (if your ranking isnt too good)</p>
<p>do well in other areas.</p>
<p>oh give me a break- insecure is in the top 3% of his class and complaning, because hes a lil biiitch</p>
<p>suck my d!ck vag!nacold23</p>
<p>someone's insecuuuure.</p>
<p>oh, wait.</p>
<p>i love how the comments are necessary</p>
<p>insecure, i speak on behalf of the entire college confidential community, and the president of the united states, that you are indeed a lil biitch.</p>
<p>What about high schools that don't weight grades? How do colleges then decide whether one applicant is academically stronger? Do they still expect students who take AP's to be ranked pretty high under an unweighted system?</p>
<p>Yes, the math classes are weighted, and yes, there are a bunch of smart kids. They also take way more APs than they can handle to get the weighted grades. My son's been taking a few (not all) knowing that he can handle them well and not digging himself into a hole - that's the reason for the lower rank. And grade inflation there is ridiculous.</p>