@TLD1267 By that same logic, getting a 4.0 or 4.17 may be easier at one school than another (not attempting to insult your daughter or school system). Taking the top 10% allows them to easily gauge how well a student does within his or her own environment against peers that are all generally given access to the same resources. I definitely think it isn’t fair to just base these decisions off of numbers, but I will say that using class rank or % is probably better than taking numerical GPA.