<p>Please chance me.</p>
<p>College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA-Econ/PolSci</p>
<p>[li] SAT (one sitting): 1930 (600R, 680M, 650W) —Retaking 11/10</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT IIs (if sent):n/a</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: 28 (29 W, 31M, 27R, 24S) —Retaking 10/10</p>[/li]
<p>[li] GPA: 4.01 Weighted (On 4.0 Scale)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 5 AP’s, 6 Honors</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank: School Doesn’t Rank (Definitely Top 25% though)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Service Program Officer, NHS, Leadership Class, President/Founder of Club, V Golf, V Cross Country, Volunteer (250+ hours)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Paid Work: Yes, over the summer.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: Great</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recs: Good-Great</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec: Great</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): Yes, very good one.</p>[/li]
<p>[*) Location/Person: Houston</p>
<p>[li] State or Country: Texas</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: Rigorous Private School</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: White</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: Male</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Other: Awarded Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship (Only one senior from high school gets it).</p>[/li]
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>ACT/SAT slight low for OOS. So hence a low reach. However it depends on what the hook is.</p>
<p>man, why do so many schools seem to not rank their students?</p>
<p>Weighted GPA class rank doesn’t fairly reflect students who are performing at their best but would only do so by taking non-honors classes.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA class rank doesn’t fairly reflect students who are taking challenging courses but aren’t necessarily getting all As.</p>
<p>Given the lean toward the “whole person” concept of scholastic performance, class ranks also don’t usually reflect extracurricular activities, volunteer experience, etc, etc.</p>
<p>Thus, districts decline to rank to avoid penalizing otherwise scholastically acceptable students.</p>
<p>What amuses me is schools (like mine) who say they don’t rank, but there’s a computer calculated rank on the transcript (that nobody’s bothered to check).</p>
<p>Well the purpose of a class rank is to judge the kids based off of how well they balance playing sports, having a job, and school. Its to rank kids on how well they are performing academically. </p>
<p>Weighted GPA is the only way to rank as well. An unweighted GPA rank is not fair to the kids who actually are the smartest in their school. You could have a kid taking 12 AP classes that got one B be ranked lower than the kid taking all basic classes and music, which isn’t fair. </p>
<p>As for a weighted GPA not “fairly reflecting students who are taking challenging courses but aren’t necessarily getting all As”, well, that’s their fault. A rank isn’t meant to be nice and PC to everyone. Its meant to be cut and dry. If you are getting all A’s, but have no honors classes, you are gonna be ranked lower than the kid working his ass off in all honors and is getting all As.</p>
<p>Anyway I think the whole “no rank” thing is just another thing happening that takes the competitiveness out of society." Everyone is perfect and special in their own way". Great, but that doesn’t mean we have to pretend that everyone is equal at everything, that’s just stupid.</p>
<p>I don’t think class rank is going by the wayside because people are trying to take the competitiveness out of things.</p>
<p>I think people are just becoming more cognizant of the fact that humans are more than numbers on a page and not every facet about someone can be boiled down to “114 out of 432” and that you’re doing a disservice to them by making judgements based out of that rank.</p>
<p>Well ya, you can’t put a whole of someone down into a number. But, I still think we should have a class rank. I mean the essays and EC part of an application is where you can tell the College just how special you are. But the class rank, just like ACT/SAT, are there to objectively rate you academically.</p>