<p>Report cards just came home, and my D's (junior) class rank is exactly at the top tenth percentile. I swear she leaves no room for error just to stress me out!! Seriously though, she was thisclose to an A in Pre-Calc (A), but got a C on the final, so ended up with a B this semester :/ I think that let a few kids slide in front of her.</p>
<p>Anyhoo, she is going to have to hang on for dear life. I feel like top 10% is so important. Do applications generally ask you to check; top 10%, top 25%, top 50%? Or do they ask what number you are and your class size? I don't know how big of a deal this is? Any insight?</p>
<p>Your school counselor will send a school profile to the colleges. It will tell the number of students in the class, and the range of GPAs. If your school ranks, that will appear on your child’s transcript. Some schools report the rankings and some report deciles only.</p>
<p>I believe in Texas, being top 10% is a big deal. Elsewhere, your mileage may vary.</p>
<p>Go to the CA website, download the School Report form, you can see the different ways schools can report class standing. How it is done depends on your school.</p>
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<p>It is one of several indicators of academic record (UW gpa, W gpa, class rank, %, rigor of coursework). </p>
<p>I don’t think it’s worth stressing or stressing your kid about because I don’t think this single factor is going to make a difference in admissions decisions.</p>
<p>x-posted w/thumper; didn’t think about cutoffs like TX.</p>
<p>neither of my kids schools weighted grades, only the inner city public ranked- they both were accepted to all the schools they applied to.
Ranking isn’t a make or break for acceptance although it may be for outside scholarships.</p>
<p>My S was the top half (barely) of his HS class. That did not stop him from becoming a NMF and also getting into some great Us with 1/2 tuition or more in merit awards. I wouldn’t sweat it & congratulate your D on doing so very well! Top 10% is an awesome accomplishment.</p>
<p>My D was not even the top half of her class in HS–perhaps she was the bottom 10%. She was still able to transfer to her dream U after completing a semester of CC, where even there she never got straight As!</p>
<p>Our state university ignores class rank from our high school. They might from some other high schools.
Why? Our high school has a large population of students whose parents moved to the district just so they could attend the school, and who do nothing but study and make straight A’s.
The result is a lottery to determine the valedictorian because many students have perfect GPAs; many students who are socially awkward and ill-prepared for living outside their parents’ house and community because all they have done is study and not socialize or do anything outside their community; and the resulting skew of class rank at the school.</p>