FSU Class of 2030 Profile

Crapshooter
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:44:07 +0000

tsbna44:

The thing with rank is most schools don’t - so yes, you have to take with a grain of salt.

Most schools don’t - ?

Do you mean to say most High Schools don’t supply class rank or that most Universities don’t evaluate class rank?

For the former, there are still quite a large percentage of High Schools that utilize class rank (though not all of them report it on transcripts to Common App or Colleges directly) but it’s not as if only a very small percentage use it.

For the latter, of the eleven public state flagships D26 applied to, six of them report that it is evaluated (from Very Important to Considered) in applications where it is provided, and five report it as (not considered). In this situation, FSU reports class rank for it’s Academic Evaluation as “Important” along with GPA, Test Scores, and Essay - where only Course Rigor is evaluated with more weight as “Very Important”.

Though whether or not the students “Class Rank” is specifically evaluated wasn’t really the point I was attempting to make here - it was more along the lines of, don’t let one or two ‘numbers’ that are out of bounds for a published admitted student profile dissuade you from applying because you’re thinking you ‘won’t get in’.