<p>I'm currently ranked first, but senior year I am some classes at a local university that are going to cause my GPA to fall because they aren't weighted grades. Will it matter at all for college admissions if my rank falls from 1 to say...3 or 4? I will be applying with a rank of 1, and my grades will be As...so does it matter? Thanks to anybody who can help</p>
<p>I would no it doesn't matter. What matters is what you show them at the time you apply.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks for your response...I was sort of worried about it...but ok</p>
<p>You should be fine if you do well with your college classes. At a certain point of productivity a college just says this student is a good fit and makes an offer.</p>
<p>Are you sure that the college courses will be counted in your high school GPA? My school doesn't count them...</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm positive they count them...it's a weird system, they aren't counted the same way, but I know my GPA will fall slightly due to the courses...It's because I'm taking them in place of rather than in addition to high school courses</p>
<p>Wow, at my school they just list on our transcripts that we have credit for college courses we took in place of high school ones. Most of the time kids take Gov/Eco, Health, or Speech in the summer so it won't hurt their GPAs (pretty much the people that either want to be Valedictorian/Salutatorian or are just out of the top 10%).</p>
<p>I wouldn't think that it would hurt you. I'm not really even sure how much schools care about rank as long as you're in the top 5 or 10%.</p>
<p>Yeah, if I get all As there's no possible way I'll even fall out of the top 1% (class of 550)</p>
<p>Well I think it definitely looks better to be 1 as opposed to 3 or 4, because it shows you beat out everyone. Its kind of like getting that 4.0 over that 3.9. The 4.0 just looks more perfect.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I think if colleges didn't care whether you were ranked #1 or #4, Brown wouldn't post admissions decisions of candidates ranked #1 in their hs vs #4 in their hs and show the downward progression and Dartmouth wouldn't post statements like 28% of the freshman class were valedictorians and 10% were salutatorians.</p>
<p>Are those statistics based on final grades, though? And would they be more likely to reject me if I were to fall a few places senior year, after applying to them with the ranking of first, especially if I did not get any Bs?</p>
<p>On your first question, I would guess it's more likely based on the rank at the time of the application, but I'm uncertain. One second one, I have no idea.</p>