How important is rank?

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Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:59:45 +0000

Doesn’t matter terribly much as long as you are a competitive candidate (i.e: not 250/307 students or something); plenty of valedictorians get turned down. Make your GPA as high as you can, obviously, but it’s not like JUST being rank 1 or rank 3 instead of #5 would get you in anywhere.