My daughter is applying for chemical engineering major in ED/EA. Her school consular reported her overall ranking of 7 out of 320~350 graduate class on common application. Now my daughter got detailed subject ranking from school. Every subject ranks top except physics, this is her last school year subject ranking:
biology: 1st out of 110s students;
chemistry: 1st out of 80s students
English: 5th out of 180s students
statistics: 3rd out of 100s students
economics: 2 out of 15 students
but physics: 20 out of 80s students
she hasn’t taken SAT physics subject yet. plan to take it in Dec and that score will be useful for RD, not for ED/EA now.
She does bad on physics, and applies for chem Engineering now. Since physics is very important for engineer major, we are wondering if she should send this detailed subject ranking to admission office of ED/EA colleges knowing that other subjects are at the top. Will this physics ranking hurt her overall academic performance?
Appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks.
20 of 80 isn’t a showstopper. Physics is critical, but most GCs don’t send this level of detail. And presumably she has the rigorous classes, top grades and related scores? A great stem LoR?
Ask the GC if they commonly send it. Some will quote the best parts of it in their letter. Ime, it’s rare to see this, at all.
How does this translate to her grades in physics?
Yes, she takes the most rigorous classes school offer. No IB or AP offer. This is a separate letter my daughter requests from school dean. The school consular only reports overall class ranking of No. 7, not the individual subject ranking. we don’t know if she emails this to Admission office by herself now, it will help or hurt her Chem E application.
By the way, can school consular reload her report in common application later if my daughter needs to apply for RD. Thanks
Physics: only two modules were assessed so far, one A and one B. The rest modules results are will be available early next year.
I wouldn’t send the individual subject rankings. That’s not something that most high schools do, so colleges won’t be expecting anything like that.