How Important is Class Rank

oldfort
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:48:48 +0000

For schools that don’t rank, the GC generally does not check any of the boxes and indicates elsewhere in the report that no ranking is done by the school.

Not true. They don’t rank each student by number, but they do indicate what percentile a student is. My kids went to 2 different private schools and both of them didn’t rank, but they still checked off how the student ranked within each category.

Academic achievement
Extracurricular accomplishments
Personal qualities and character
Overall

They are ranked Below Average, Average…Top 10%, Top 5% and Top 1%

This is not ranking, but it is one of the most important piece of information from your GC’s LOR. If your school doesn’t rank, ask your GC beforehand how he/she is going to check off those boxes. When it comes to their writeup, it’s yada, yada, yada.