<p>I’m the val of my class, but rank isn’t that important in admissions. They’re much more interested in the difficulty of your courseload and what grades you got in those classes.</p>
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<p>Rank itself may not be very important, but its contextualizing value for grades can be quite significant.</p>
<p>I’m valedictorian. do your ranks really change based on senior grades? ours are fixed at the end of junior year, and our guidance counselors don’t do any sort of recalculation (too lazy lol).</p>
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<p>Our ranks are recalculated each semester, and valedictorian status is not determined until after the final semester of senior year.</p>
<p>Not gonna lie–I think my rank is the weakest part of my application. I’m 12th out of a class of approximately 340ish (top 3%), but I hope they look at the fact that I moved in the middle of high school (between my soph and junior year) and the fact that the two different high schools I attended offered very different classes and had different ranking systems.</p>
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<p>Then you’re probably in good shape!</p>
<p>My rank is the weakest part, too. Granted, I’m in a school of ~1000, so i’m still in the top 5%, but it’s not good. The kids above me are about half system-gamers, though. They’re in the bare minimum of honors classes they need to get weighted that way. </p>
<p>Also, I have an upward trend. So I’m still kinda hoping…</p>
<p>I’m a solid 2nd in my class of 650, and it’s been that way since sophomore year. No chance of going up or down unless someone moves. My freshman year we had over 830 kids in our class. Somehow in 3 years 200 of them are gone.</p>
<p>We don’t rank, officially. I think I’m really high up there though, so it sort of bugs me, because I’m pretty sure it would help me.</p>
<p>@alisa</p>
<p>Are you from Cy-something? That’s really weird haha.</p>
<p>o_O so many valedictorians…</p>
<p>…that being said, I’m valedictorian out of a class of 311. Never thought of it as the best part of my application or anything, and with good reason. I don’t think val status by itself is really quite enough to cut it.</p>
<p>It can’t hurt though, I mean it’s not like that part of your application could have been any better.</p>
<p>I’m 6th out of a class of around 400. I think I could go up at semester, and if I had taken AP Bio rather than AP Chem last year, ended up as 1 or 2. </p>
<p>Oh well, it was a good experience to have and I don’t think that I’m in particularly bad shape.</p>
<p>I’m valedictorian out of a class of ~600. Unfortunately, my school doesn’t officially rank…but the reason i know is because my counselor showed me the “unofficial” rankings and i’m first. i wonder if she mentioned it in her LOR…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure your counselor would mention that if she’s a nice person, if that makes you feel better about it :D</p>
<p>owlehn: no I’m in a district very close to Cypress we play those schools for football and band competitions though. I’m more in the spring area</p>
<p>hahah thanks i appreciate your faith! it does comfort me a little</p>
<p>Yup no prob haha. I mean counselors are usually trying to put us in the best light possible for those letters, so I don’t see why she wouldn’t.</p>
<p>you know what? i managed to go a whole week without thinking about yale. i completely, utterly blocked it out of my mind for an ENTIRE week!!! </p>
<p>**** you college confidential, now im gonna fail my finals.</p>
<p>^rofl, story of our lives :D</p>