How much does class rigor and rank matter?

SansSerif
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:04:21 +0000

I know that PSU says “2/3 GPA, 1/3 SAT” are their admission criteria. But I see a lot of people in this forum talk about all the honors/AP classes they took, and how their class rank helped them. Do these factors really count at Penn State?