Top 20%?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>1) On the Penn website, it has the incoming student profile. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php[/url]”>http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php</a></p>

<p>In the table where it talks about class rank and deciles, is the section that says “no rank” inclusive of schools that don’t give out class rank but give out deciles? I think it might because within the top decile, it splits up into valedictorian, salutatorian, other top 5%, and second 5%. There’s no way Penn would know this from a high school that only gave out a single decile isntead of a specific rank.</p>

<p>2) My school uses our unweighted GPA from grades 10-11 in determining deciles. This year, the top 10% (in a class of 460 students) has only people with a 4.0. This means as soon as you get a B in any class, even if it’s an AP class, your gone from the top bracket. I have a single B in grades 10-11, and it was in the first semester of AP US History. My unweighted GPA for grades 10-11 is 3.959. I pretty much have the highest GPA for someone w/o a 4.0. If my GPA was weighted, I would be well within the top bracket. Because 91% of Penn’s class is from the top 10% of their high schools, and my school will put down the top 20% for me, will this completely annihilate my chances for Penn?</p>

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<p>Total Top Decile 25%
Second Decile 7% </p>

<p>Haha you won't get out of it that easily. If your school reports by deciles, they still use it. If youare in the 2nd decile, your chances just fell by 18% statistically.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>i especially need a solid answer for #1</p>

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<p>I understand the pain because my school has the same problem. What happens is people take easy classes and get 4.0's while some of us with AP classes get one or two B's then get screwed over by moving out of the top 10%. It's only really bad because it screws both sides over, a lot of people with 4.0's in the top 10% will get rejected on the basis of too easy classes while some of us get rejected for not being the the top decile with 1-3 B's. If only our school would rank with weighted GPAs.... all would be good then.</p>

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<p>i'm sure the admissions officers know about your schools' policies. The reason why the statistics are the way they are is because most schools calculate rank based on QPA. Don't lose hope guys. The admissions officers are a lot more understanding than you think.</p>