My son’s school has officially said no class ranking while the school uses weighted GPA system. Is a personal statement “earned the highest possible GPA from school” okay for college applications? Thanks.
If factual but not saying anything they won’t already know.
Tell them something about you they don’t know.
They’ll know that from the profile and they won’t really care about that specific stat most likely.
If you really want to add it, make sure you are 100% certain and put in the addl info section. Brief. One sentence.
But I would not add.
That’s the tl;dr answer
Not necessary. They’ll see his grades.
Agree, not needed plus it may come off as bragging. The HS will send a school profile with each transcript so admissions officers will understand the grading system and see he got top grades.
FWIW MANY high schools do not rank.
That would be much better if coming from the HS Counselor: “our school doesn’t rank but if we did, Johny woudl be at/near the top ten/decile…”
btw: less than half of CA high schools rank, so selective schools are in the know.
Many schools don’t rank. Including many very competitive schools. If you known or believe your student is at or near the top, you can ask the GC to include it in their letter – that’s the best place for it rather than the student bragging about it themself. But generally even if you don’t, don’t worry. They have a lot of data. They will know if your student is near the top relative to current and former peers regardless.
It will likely be apparent from the school profile.
Don’t add.
Nope. A college AO will understand the student’s relative performance. If the HS did rank students, the 15th or 20th ranked kid might also be seen as academically competitive. The difference-makers will be the essays, recs and activities.
Thank you all for great thoughts. The school transcript does include weighted GPA that may indicate some kind of performance.
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