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<p>Class rank matters in the sense that students at the top of a high school class are designated ELC. I’d bet that’s what the UCs are tracking, not class rank per se. </p>
<p>Reading back over the early pages of this thread, I think that anyone who’s a student in this range (or parent of one) should go back and reread the philosophy/big picture/holistic insights in this thread and in its predecessor, <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/767118-under-3-6-gpa-applying-top-20-parents-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/767118-under-3-6-gpa-applying-top-20-parents-thread.html</a> I think that’s much, much more useful than just looking at random people posting here saying they had such-and-such GPA and SAT/ACT without also seeing the context of those stats. How rigorous was their high school? What was the student’s AP and/or IB and/or college-level course load? What are the student’s ECs, their writing ability? Was this an ED app? How does the high school fare in college admissions? Context is incredibly important for students like this. </p>
<p>Those of us who posted on those threads thought about these issues for weeks, even years, letting it settle in. I used the insight I gleaned from these threads to rewrite the high school profile at D1’s magnet, and darned if the seniors didn’t have an exceptionally good year in admissions. :)</p>