<p>So I am 13 out of 476, do you think that is an okay rank? i ask because so many people are number one or two, but I am not even in the top ten bc electives (football and band) are not weighted the same for rank, so my rank is lower.
Do you think my rank is okay or what?</p>
<p>Top 3%...so yes.</p>
<p>Wow, football as a class. What a concept. Texas?</p>
<p>I was admitted SCEA with a rank not far from yours (albeit unweighted). If you've got academic rigor and some solid extracurricular things going on, you're just as competitive as everyone else. My feeling is that the minute GPA differences amongst top-ranked students are pretty trivial and I would hope the admissions office feels the same way.</p>
<p>heheh i was ranked 29/314 and got in!</p>
<p>Yeah I am like 28/286 and I'm a little nervous.</p>
<p>Yeah football is a class. And it is a serious one, but that is why Texas is Texas.</p>
<p>The difference in GPA is actually pretty big. The val has a 4.0 and a like 5.73 but I am 13 and have a 3.87 and a 5.54 W (again those darn extracurriculars).</p>
<p>5.73s??? 5.55s?? Do you guys take all APs at Junior and Freshman year? Right now I am at rank 17 out of 1256 and rank 1 has a GPA of 5.3, but I'm going to take a couple of online classes which will hopefully bump me up to top ten</p>
<p>Haha yeah, most sports are classes in my school too. </p>
<p>But I think that's a really good rank. And the admissions people will understand the whole football thing..</p>
<p>hipster23, 17 out of... 1256?! What kind of school do you go to?</p>
<p>Wow hipster23, that's very good. I admire your ambition.</p>
<p>@ OP: I think your rank is just fine, more than "okay."</p>
<p>hipster23 - my school is huge too. I am ranked 1 out of about 1000. Texas public schools like mine are usually this large (I assume the Texas legislature believes stuffing thousands of kids into a single school saves money). </p>
<p>At my school, the very top of the class (top 5 or so) are only separated by minute fractions of GPA points (I have about a 5.631 and number 2 has about a 5.629). I honestly doubt the merit of absolute rank as an indicator or academic success, but the reality is that at my school I was accepted into Yale SCEA and the student ranked number 10 (with very similar depth of ECs) was deferred (although he was still right around top 1%).</p>
<p>Class rank depends on the high school you attend. If you attend a very mediocre school that rarely sends anyone to a top college, then you'd probably be #1 or #2 in your class unless you've got a strong tip factor. If you go to a highly competitive magnet school, being in the top 10% is probably fine. For the tippy top privates, top 20% and perhaps even 30% should be OK. Again, this is for the well-rounded type of candidate. Obviously, admissions is more generous to top recruited athletes and children of billionnaires.</p>
<p>^^That is so bad for me, because my school is not competitive except for a small number of people. We really don't send that many grads to top schools (two years ago the val went to Harvard-which is still talked about). But the thing is that pretty much everyone (even the Val) takes classes they want and not classes for rank. Our Val (who is an amazing Asian Jew) does not take advanced science (even though for rank they matter more) bc he does not want to. But our school works out that people can still pursue their interests (for him it is Comp Sci) and still have an okay rank. </p>
<p>@Hippster: the way our school works ppl can take APs whenever they want. Last year I took 4 (Chem, English, Comp. Sci, and US History). This year I am taking seven (Bio, Physics B (only one my school offers), English Lit, Gov., Economics, Calculus AB (couldn't take BC because of scheduling conflict), and Statistics).
But ppl usually start taking high school classes in middle school. You don't go to Pearland do you?</p>