If your schedule is rigorous, they’ll take note. They also look at rigor vs. what your school offers - so if you’re not rigorous but your school doesn’t allow it, that won’t kill you.
In the last two years at our local HS, we’ve had two - non- valedictorian or salutorian attend Princeton and Chicago - neither with any known hooks. There is a baseball player this year going to Penn for baseball - he was not in the top listed students in the graduation guide (4.25+) - so he’s less than that.
If you have your list or reach, target and safety - so you are into that top 70, you’re gonna be fine.