FSU Class of 2030 Profile

Crapshooter
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:20:23 +0000

tsbna44:

Not sure the % but I believe less than half rank.

So high schools do still use class rank, and universities do still use it for academic evaluation of applicants.

It’s not an ‘opt in/out’ selection for the individual student, such as it can be for test scores at some universities (and I’m aware there are universities which automatically don’t consider test scores either).

And probably more importantly, as an individual student with a N=1 your high school either does or does not report class rank on your transcript - you don’t get a say in the matter. And an individual university either does or does not evaluate class rank (if it does, it likely has some amount of weight attached to it’s importance).

Therefore, a student who goes to a high school which reports a class rank and who applies to a university which evaluates class rank as part of an application, will evaluate that student on the class rank that is reported by their school.

Regardless, in the context of the general point I was attempting to make, it could just as easily been made with an applicant with a GPA that was 0.25 below the middle 50 or an SAT of 1330 etc. For my particular D26, it just happens to be class rank (which her school reports and FSU says they evaluate) and the admitted student profile makes it sound like 92% of admitted students are in the top 10% of their class… so if you aren’t in the top 10% you don’t have much of a chance because only 8% of their admitted students get in with a class rank outside of top 10%.