Harvard and class rank

skieurope
Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:24:35 +0000

Harvard does not consider class rank because the majority of applicants attend schools that do not provide an ordinal rank. Those HS’s will generally only provide a decile rank.

Having said that, if there are numerous applicants from one HS, I would not be surprised if the AO’s put the folders in rank order. Your ACT score is an advantage, but a class rank outside the top 10% is not, particularly if you are not attending a top academic HS like Andover, Exeter, Stuyvesant, etc.