<p>thanks both of you for the links- helpful. drusba, so you are saying that uiuc las uses the rank that is given on the HS transcript? </p>
<p>I talked to an admissions person on the phone and I understood him to say that uiuc recalculates gpa to normalize the grade data across schools. Then he went on to say that they use rank - as you indicated. He misspoke or I misunderstood since, obviously, you cannot strip down gpa AND use rank because you would not have all the other students’ data available.</p>