<p>There's a pretty big discrepancy between my GPA and class rank. </p>
<p>I have a 3.6 UW GPA. (also 4.55 W, which doesn't matter to colleges.)</p>
<p>My class rank, based on the W GPA, is 9/300, or top 3%. </p>
<p>I will have taken 14 AP and IB classes as well as 9 honors courses by graduation. </p>
<p>I've noticed that top 25 schools generally don't admit students with GPAs as low as mine, but considering the rigor and rank in relation to my classmates, do I still stand a decent chance?</p>
<p>Do you have Naviance at school? Use it. Ask your GC where students with similar stats matriculated. Those are your best sources.</p>
<p>BfB,
I’d guess from your rank/weighted GPA that you have taken far more AP/IB/honors classes than most of your classmates, but also from your unweighted GPA I’d guess you had a mix of As and Bs. I think a lot depends on how your HS is viewed by colleges - how difficult, etc. It also depends on where the grades fall - lower grades in history matter less for a prospective engineer, for example, than a prospective law school student. I echo ED’s suggestion you check Naviance if its available.</p>
<p>No, my school doesn’t use Naviance. I attend a large public school in South Carolina that never (or very very rarely) sends students to Ivies or comparable schools. </p>
<p>As far as I know, very few students even apply to schools of that caliber. I know we sent someone to William and Mary this year and one person to the AFA the year before, but at my school, I don’t think the schools that past students attend will act as a good indicator of my potential simply because students at my school don’t generally aim for top schools.</p>