How important is high school percentile rankings?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi all,
I’m a high school junior, about to apply to college next year. I’d like to study physics in a good university. My only concern at the moment is that I go to a very small school (class size of 10) and I am only ranked number 2. Percentile wise, I’m not in the top 5% for my class. I would think that this might hurt my chances of admission to the top schools: MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc. Will this hurt my college admission chances?</p>

<p>SAT: 2360</p>

<p>SAT II Math II: 800
SAT II Physics: 800</p>

<p>PSAT: 221</p>

<p>I play on my school’s basketball team and help tutor kids after school.</p>

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<p>it’s actually pretty important. but your test scores are nice.</p>

<p>and your school is weird in the sense of the number of kids. so im sure the colleges will quickly realize your situation</p>

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<p>I don’t think class rank matters if the class is less than 100 or so?</p>

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<p>Check the common data sets to see if they care about class rank.</p>

<p>Your class rank may be an issue at University of Texas - Austin, though.</p>

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<p>This star student means MIT, Harvard, Stanford</p>

<p>not da longhorns</p>