<p>i know it can't be based on this alone, but can solely your rank (like 20% of 170) keep you out of harvard?</p>
<p>if you're a urm?</p>
<p>95 weighted, ap intensive</p>
<p>I know this kid at my school who is a URM who got into Cornell with a 3.60 weighted GPA, which put him outside of the top 10% of the class, so yes you still have a shot.</p>
<p>Harvard is super hard to get into though, not that I'm downing Cornell or anything.</p>
<p>Personal stuff/ECS>rank?</p>
<p>No, it won't keep you out but it will make it hard if you go to an average high school.</p>
<p>There are many other factors aside from rank which will really determine whether you are Harvard material or not. My friend who goes to school in Methuen was just barely in the top 10% of his class and has okay SAT scores (high 1300s), but his musical genius got him in.</p>
<p>But I know colleges really want their students to ACTUALLY be in the top 10% (so they can report their class as having like 90% in the top 10%) or w/e</p>
<p>They will let roughly the same percentage fall out of the top 10% every year. They will be mostly recruited athletes, prodigies like the music guy mentioned, wealthy legacies/development candidates and URMs from inner city schools/disadvantaged backgrounds.</p>