<p>Is it important in the admission process of mid-tier schools?</p>
<p>If you have a decent GPA and a low rank, will an adcom really ostratcize your personal achievements as compared to others?</p>
<p>Rank, unfortunately, is also a big factor in mid-tier schools. Some schools, like UIUC, don’t even use GPA anymore.</p>
<p>Well, I think they use rank more than GPA because it gives them a better representation of where you stand compared to your peers. You could have a 4.0 and another person have a 3.4 but if your rank is 50/500 and the person with a 3.4 is 2/900, it’ll tell them something about each of your schools.</p>
<p>At state schools, it’s all about the numbers. </p>
<p>Especially at UT-Austin, they look at rank and rank only, not even your GPA or grades. Texas’ top 10% law is really stringent, it’s extremely difficult to get into from out-of-state, more so than Michigan, UVA, and UNC-Chapel Hill because of the top 10% law which centers around rank.</p>
<p>It’s true. I’m from Texas and that’s how it’s done. Everyone in the 10% gets in no matter what. Out of state people are at a horrible disadvantage.</p>
<p>i really dont like the ranking system…at my school someone can take easy classes, get a 4.0 and be ranked 1/400 where as someone like me who challenges themselves and takes a bunch of AP classes is ranked 90/400 because they dont take into account the difficulty of the course. i could have easily taken all regular classes and ended up 1/400. it ****es me off.</p>
<p>But in the school profile it’ll say if they weight your AP classes or not, so they’ll take that into consideration too.</p>
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<p>it’s hard to get in from in texas as well. they only accepted like 800 kids who weren’t in the top ten per cent this year. </p>
<p>that includes kids from schools that are small, private, or both, and don’t rank kids. </p>
<p>sucks.</p>