<p>Is it even worth applying to a college if their % is like 95% in the top 10%?</p>
<p>I go to a medical magnet school, but think that I'm only going to get in the top 25% out of like 170. I won't add more, but assume that I have decently high SAT scores. I'm a Mexican-American male.</p>
<p>The 5% who weren't in the top 10% are probably people like you then.</p>
<p>Yeah, people at my HS who were nowhere near the top 10% (because it's 5 people and our school is hyper-competitive) got into Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, and UPenn.. and that was only this year.. and none of them were URMs.
It's very possible if you go to a really really good HS</p>
<p>Magnet school, URM, good SAT scores, you definitely have a shot still...you've been on this board a while so you know all about applying to safeties etc, but don't let those numbers discourage you, you still have a chance at those schools</p>
<p>unwritten: u have only 5 ppl at ur school?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>cooldude: assume about 50, 5 in top 10%</p>
<p>I think he meant there are only 50 kids in his grade, at his school, and the top 10% is composed of only 5 people.</p>
<p>170 isn't a lot either though, well not in comparison to 50...but still.</p>