How does a super-small class size affect how colleges view class rank?

stachlj958
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:31:30 +0000

My class has only 32 people. In order to be in the top 10% like most people advise for elite schools, I would need to be #3 and higher. I don’t know my exact rank (it’s currently #8 (25%) but my counselor has yet to add some classes to my transcript, so it is higher) but I don’t think it will be #3. My weighted GPA is 4.3, and my UW (when factoring in those classes) will be 3.9, which I hope is competitive enough.

Given that there is such a small sample size in my class, will colleges be more lenient when it comes to class rank? Or do they not care?