Class Rank is terrible...

MYOS1634
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:13:29 +0000

Under Represented Minority. Also if you attend school in a rural district, a low-performing urban district, or if neither parent got a 4-year college degree.

Is your class rank weighted or unweighted? If your class rank is low because you have hard classes, it’ll be seen more favorably than if you mostly have “regular” classes with only a handful of honors classes.

As adults on this website are fond of saying: don’t have a dream school, have a dream life.
Don’t fixate on WashU. Look for defining characteristics: what do you like about this college?
Then look for colleges that share the same characteristics. Post on the Parents Forum and ask: what colleges that you recommend that have …, …, and …, but not …?