How much does school/class size affect achievement importance?

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Hi! I’m a student at a relatively small high school. My class size is about 70. The school is not super competitive, but it is decently challenging. So, how does that affect how my achievements are viewed?

The achievements are as follows:

I will almost certainly be valedictorian (my class rank is 1 and unless I mess up severely, I’m set).

I will have taken every AP class offered by my school, and almost every honors class (only missing 1). There are 7 AP classes and 4 honors classes. The only reason I don’t have all the honors classes is because I took a more challenging version of one of them through dual enrollment instead.

While those things may seem super impressive if I was coming from a highly competitive school with over a thousand students, do they still have significant weight since that’s not the case? Thanks!

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oh, boy, don’t even sweat this— you’re okay. focus on perfecting your apps (if you’re still writing them). you’re golden.

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I agree with @kalons - you’re doing great, and have nothing to worry about. Colleges look at where you are and what you did in the high school you attended. You did absolutely great, and college will see see your academic achievements as being very impressive.

Congratulations, and good luck!

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Agree with both previous posters. You’re doing great! Colleges will see your school profile and know you took as rigorous a course load as you had available and excelled in it. You’ll check off all their boxes with rigor, grades, rank, etc. Good job!!!