<p>I go to a school with only 65 students, so I have to be in the top 6 to be in the top 10%. Well. . . I received my class rank today and it doesn’t seem like that will happen any time soon. 23/65. My gpa isn’t that bad. I took 16 classes so far with 3 B’s (all concentrated in my freshman year) and 13 A’s -> 4.6875. This year I am taking three AP’s, 10 dual-enrollment classes, and one honors class. Is it possible to request that my counselor NOT include my class rank on my transcript? What are some colleges that do not consider the class rank at all? </p>
<p>Oh, and I’m currently a junior looking to attend GATech, UMich, UIUC, Berkeley, UT Austin, U Southern California, or Harvey Mudd, but I’m open to suggestions :)</p>
<p>UC Berkeley and other UCs do not use class rank, although factors like achievement in context with school opportunities and eligibility in local context have a correlation with class rank.</p>
<p>You can check each school’s entry on <a href=“http://www.collegedata.com”>http://www.collegedata.com</a> (admission tab) or section C7 of its common data set to see how it considers class rank and other factors.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. I just learmed that Georgia Tech doesn’t look at class rank at all. This my work in my favor. . . It’s been getting REALLY selective lately.</p>
<p>Not sure where the UCs would get class rank from in the conventional sense, since they do not use transcripts in the admissions review (they use self-reported courses and grades and then verify them on the final high school transcript of the matriculants; class rank would be unverifiable in this method since final class rank may differ from the rank at admissions review time). Perhaps UCI and UCD are referring to ELC status, which is related to class rank for most students.</p>
<p>Many schools do not even rank their students. However, most top schools would have >90% admitted students within the top 10% of their class. Obvious, not all rank are equal. They would have to consider your school profile when they look at the rank for the school that consider class rank.</p>
<p>When looking at class rank, you are assuming they’ll look at yours and toss out your application because of the relatively low rank, which isn’t how it works at all. No school, except Texas for in-state, looks at such things in a vacuum. Say you get almost all As the rest of the way with strong rigor and good test scores and you class rank stays relatively the same. No top school is going to toss your application because you’re going to school with a bunch of Einsteins any more than they would auto-admit you because you were at the top of the class with a low GPA but up against a bunch of dolts.</p>
<p>Toss class rank completely out the window, you have little control over it and it tells you little about how the admission process really works. HS students pay way too much attention to it and forget that even if they are in the top 10% and go to a college that is all top 10%, by the end of freshman year, half of all the former top 10%ers will be in the bottom half of their college class.</p>
<p>“Is it possible to request that my counselor NOT include my class rank on my transcript?”</p>
<p>Why would a school make an exception to their general policy for you (and for no one else)? How would your 60+ classmates react when they learned you received this advantage and they did not? </p>