Class Rank When Applying to Penn

45_Percenter
Thu, 01 May 2014 15:33:53 +0000

^ It will be part of the report she submits as part of the application. There are specific questions about this (difficulty of your courses relative to those available at your school, etc.), but you should ask her to be sure to explain in her report that your grades are, e.g., among the highest for students taking such advanced/difficult courses at your school (assuming that they are).

This is actually something that admissions offices at selective schools like Penn have to figure out all the time, since applicants come from a wide variety of schools from around the world. Just make sure that your guidance counselor adequately explains it in her report, and you should be fine. As I indicated, the admissions process at the most selective schools is set up to discern this information in the evaluation of GPAs and class ranks reported by thousands of high schools.