<p>I know my class rank, I am in the top 5% of my class so I chose to have it reported. I’m just saying what my school does so I don’t understand why you are arguing that it doesn’t occur. My school is also highly accredited, sending 1 to harvard, 2 to brown, 2 to upenn, and 1 to cornell from last year’s graduating class alone.</p>
<p>^ lol “highly accredited.”</p>
<p>I wonder what that makes mine. This year, on ED acceptances alone, we’ve had 6 Cornells, 3 penns, 2 columbia, 1 JHU (that I know of), 2 georgetowns.</p>
<p>Last year we had these acceptances that I know of:
2 MIT, 1 Harvard, 2 Princeton, 1 Yale, 3 Duke, 7 Cornells, 2 Penns, 2 Columbia, 2+ JHU, 2 Georgetown and prob many more that I’m forgetting.</p>
<p>So the top 25 in the class got into an ivy or an equivalent of that? How many kids are at your school and what is the name because these stats are really high.</p>
<p>Take a look at the top big city prep schools and the top boarding schools, they send 30% plus to the ivies year after year and another large group to the top LACs.</p>
<p>To name just a few:</p>
<p>Horace Mann
Brearley
Harvard-Westlake
Groton
Andover
St. Paul’s</p>
<p>Not willing to reveal the name of my school, but I’m from NJ and the top 25 definitely get accepted to Ivys/big name schools… even more if you’re counting Georgetown, Northwestern, UChicago, UMich.</p>
<p>We have around 650+ kids in a graduating class.</p>
<p>And my school is public.</p>
<p>Weighted or Unweighted? If unweighted: Tell your guidance counselor to explain in his/her recommendation that the class rank is unweighted and that many students ranked higher have taken less challenging classes. I used this strategy and I believe that by my guidance counselor explaining that if weighted I would have been like top 3 people in my school, my poor class rank was forgiven. I was like 12% but got into Midd (89% in top ten percent), but I might be the exception. At least try it.</p>
<p>let’s say,ok,forget about my class rank. if i got all As or A-s on science,eng ,social studies ,math and foreign language,but i got a B or even C on an unpopular subject,which is HEALTH,is it going to hurt? (and also,the grade that i got on this subject is what dropped my class rank out of top 10 
)</p>
<p>bumppp!!~~~~</p>
<p>Obviously it is going to hurt. Health and those classes are the EASIEST classes and colleges know it. The only way you do bad is if you don’t participate or do the work. They are not leveled (no honors/Ap) so that is why your rank goes down. It will hurt your chances more than a real class.</p>
<p>but my health teacher made my class like a social studies class…it even seems harder than my Chemistry Honor class that i took last year.(noo,it is actually harder my chem H class )</p>
<p>It still looks bad. health is an elective. It would be like getting a c in gym class. It won’t look good no matter how hard it is. You’ll just have to accept it. Sorry.</p>