Is chicago right for me?

Maroon8
Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:26:55 +0000

Someone asked about ranking. Officially Chicago doesn’t rank. I’m not sure you can ever find out exactly where you stand. You can do some educated guessing.

There are two huge differences between high school and college "class ranks.’ First, in college the curriculum is so different depending on major that the strict numerical order is less useful than general position in a class (top 10%, etc.). Second, in high school, everyone (or nearly so) with good grades is attempting to do the same thing after high school. Thus, if you are #37 in your class, you are probably the 37th highest-GPA that is applying to college. In college, however, not everyone is doing the same thing. Thus you could be 90th in the class, but the fifth highest GPA applying to medical school.