<p>lol more annoying anxiety from me...</p>
<p>So my class rank was top 5% at my school for freshman, sophomore, and the first half of junior year (admittedly it did drop after 1st semester) I somewhat justify this as I had been extremely upset/bitter/depressed about moving in the middle of freaking junior year. But my grades are much better this semester. But the problem is, at my new school, my class rank is in the 100s!! Out of a slightly smaller class!! This doesn't make sense. Even weighted I'm still at 40. If I send in both of my transcripts, will colleges be able to tell something's weird? Or will they just look at my new school and be like, Wow this person's class rank sucks...???</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Does your new school have a lot better reputation than your old school? It would seem that way, and colleges will recognize that. Colleges care much more about the actual grades themselves, not the class rank. The only thing that might be a disadvantage is that colleges sometimes give “extra credit” to students in the top X percent of a HS, regardless of how good the HS is. You probably have lost out on that opportunity. But otherwise, just keep your grades to the same or above what they were and colleges won’t really notice.</p>
<p>My old school has a better rep. Number 2 in Wisconsin. (not much, but this state as a failing economy and all)</p>
<p>Well thank you. Seeing that big three digit number almost made me go into cardiac arrest.</p>
<p>uhm, berkeley doesn’t look at rankings… neither do any of the other UC’s… only GPA matters.</p>
<p>Wow really? I thought they did. But if they don’t then I don’t really have to worry.</p>
<p>Berkeley does look at rankings, but it doesn’t weigh too much on it. GPA, SATs, and ECs are usually the main factors in admissions.</p>
<p>they don’t ask for class rank on the application.</p>
<p>^ True, but each year, your high school releases a ‘school profile’ to each university. That school profile denotes the GPA required to attain certain class rank. For example in my high school (according to the school profile), a weighted 4.3 GPA and above denotes that you are top 5% of the class.</p>
<p>Really…?</p>
<p>Well, I went to one high school freshman sophomore and first half of junior year. 2nd semester junior year 1 high school plus a private math and science place (must be admitted) and next year instead of going to the 2nd high school I’m going to dual enroll at a university. My transcripts all messed up. I feel like with this situation a college should just ignore class rank as the 4 diff. institutions I’ll have attended are in no way comparable.</p>
<p>A competitive, high ranking AP school, a broke semi-competitive IB school, a math and science center that only accepts 60-70 freshman a year, and a university.</p>
<p>Again, they don’t care THAT much about it; hell, it’s probable that the schools themselves only see class rank and applicant number, given that they announce the auto-admits or whatever it is around the same time that the National Merit guys release the semifinalist list - quite a while BEFORE the application window.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>