<p>if you are in the top 10 percent of your graduating class of a school that is within the top 300 schools in the nation, and have taken the HARDEST course load (one of the most AP's in class) out of 620 kids, are you acceptable for Wharton? Do admissions officers really care between a 33/620 over a 57/620 if the latter took more APs? By graduation, 11 APs under belt. is being within the top 10 percent the main criteria for Wharton (and other top schools for that matter)?</p>
<p>Very much so, but a part of me thinks its more like students in the single digits for class rank. Then again, a lot of schools don’t rank like that and only give a percentage. </p>
<p>Colleges do say rank isn’t the best indicator of an applicants strength. GPA is a more sure answer.</p>
<p>isn’t rank more important than your unweighted gpa?</p>
<p>well they are related…everything depends on how well u do in relation to all the other kids in ur school…</p>
<p>if my unweighted gpa was a 3.6, but my weighted was 4.0+, and i am in the top 10%, wharton will consider me competetive?</p>
<p>yes they will. they want to know if you can thrive at wharton. if you app says that, they will consider you</p>
<p>What if you are the top 1% at a school that hasn’t gotten anyone accepted to Wharton in the past 5-7 years?</p>
<p>Sounds like me. I think that’s a good thing if your school is under-represented?</p>
<p>Not really Catalysis.
Under-represented schools don’t have an advantage in college admissions. It always depends on the student whose applying from them.
The problem with under-represented schools usually is that they don’t have either many students with high GPAs, they have too much grade inflation, lack APs and Honors, or something like that.
So obviously, when a kid from an under-represented school has a 4.0, with no APs, and is valedictorian, Ivy Leagues won’t just take them because they have a 4.0 from taking easy classes and are Val unless they did something else like ECs, self studies AP tests, etc.</p>