Class Rank is terrible...

01010011ean
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 02:33:53 +0000

The title pretty much says it all. I am not in the top 10% of my high school class (74/702 ), due to terrible grades freshman year. I have gotten good grades since then but still not in the top ten percent of my class.

I have a 34 on my ACT. I have been fairly successful in science olympiad. I am the vice president of a big local charity
and I am one of the top MUN delegates nationally. I am also Puerto Rican (which I heard helps a bit). So, I want to know if I have done enough to have colleges overlook my class rank. The school of my dreams is Washington University in St. Louis, but only 5% of their admits were not in the top ten percent of their class. I am really worried about this and tbh a little depressed.

So, I have two questions:

1. Is my application strong enough to make up for my class rank?

2. What happens if I don’t put my class rank on parchment? (I mean, a 3.75/4.33 gpg sounds good without the context)