<p>It matters quite a bit even if your school doesn’t rank. Your GC will check off a box on your LOR - top 1%, 5%, 10%… If you are aiming for top tier schools, you want your GC to check off 1 or 5%. When you have a small class size, it can be more challenging. My kid was the Sal and her class happened to have 180 students that year, so she just made the top 1%. It was a discussion we had with her GC.</p>