General questions about college admissions

blizzardpenguin
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:38:56 +0000

Exactly how important is class rank?
My school only gives ranks if the university absolutely requires it. I feel that I am in the first or second tenth of my school, but I feel that rank is not that important.

There are way more factors to account for than how you place in context with your school.

So my more specific questions are these:
What is the point of class rank?
Do colleges use it to pick on student over another?
Can there be more than one student from the same school going to schools like Caltech, MIT, HPY’s etc. ?