<p>Ok. So I am by far taking the hardest classes possible. I have gotten to the point where I will be taking all my classes at a local university. I have a 3.92 and somehow I am in the 14th percentile… Its def. because kids take these super easy classes with like one AP and get 3.98s or what not. Would a prestigious university(Columbia, JHU, Brown, princeton, amherst… etc.) mark me down for this that much?</p>
<p>Thanks for any feedback!</p>
<p>Most of the schools you mention have under 5% of students who were not in the top 10% of their class. Those who were are generally athletic stars, development cases and rare minorities.</p>
<p>Do you really mean 14th percentile?</p>
<p>Yeah…don’t you mean 86th percentile?</p>
<p>I feel very bad for you. Any high school that ranks and at the same time does NOT weight classes needs to seriously reconstruct its methodology. And yes, it might hurt you, unless you get across the point that you have been challenging yourself and other applicants haven’t.</p>
<p>I havew the exact same problem as you. Seriosuly, it sucks. I will probably go to Wisconsin Madison, kick ass for a year, and then transfer to Notre Dame or Duke.</p>
<p>That really sucks. Schools should really readjust their weighting system.
As someone before mentioned, schools rarely accept applicants below the top 10%. (but it’s not like 14% is bad at all) I’ve heard Emory doesn’t look at class ranking. Maybe you can try looking into some of these kinds of schools as safeties?</p>
<p>well I am going to make a huge point about that. I took 6 Aps my Junior year and will be taking 3 classes at the University of Wisconsin Madison (my safety as well) my senior year. I have pretty good extra currics. to. Its funny though. All of the people at my school going to ivys were not in the top 10% (we had an MIT, a princeton, and a yale).Bah 0.o I will be so ****ed if it comes down to my class ranking. I also got a 34 on my ACT.</p>
<p>Also, it completely sucks that we don;t weigh grades. Would a college maybe take that into consideration? Because if my grades were weighted, I guarantee I would be one of the top 3 students in my school.</p>
<p>And i mean in the top 14% btw.</p>
<p>I am in the same position as both of you. Unweighted class rank=evil to overachieving CCers who load up on AP courses.</p>
<p>My school is like that for unweighted but luckily it had a weighted system too. I took 12 AP classes total was ranked 3/370 for weighted and 40/370 for unweighted. At one point I was ranked 1 for weighted and 58 for unweighted. Most people at my school barely take more than 2 or 3 AP classes.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would ask your counselor to explain this situation and plea your case.</p>
<p>Hard to believe your shool sent kids to Yale and Princeton who were not top 10%. Those schools want vals and sals, not even top 5% does it for the vast majority. Sure they didn’t have hooks? Because even among the hooked, less than 5% were not top 10%.</p>
<p>I am sure about the students. My school has an incredible amount of motivated students who take super easy classes… It is insane 0.o</p>