When colleges are looking at your rank, do they really look at your unweighted rank too closely? We don’t weigh rank at my school, so I’m behind two people who have taken way less AP and Honors classes than I have.
Will colleges see a 3/135 as a really bad thing? I’m talking about ivies/ little ivies.
It just seems like an unweighted GPA is a really inaccurate representation of a person’s academic success (I’m obviously incredibly biased).
Being #3 is good enough. Plenty of valedictorians apply to Ivies or “little Ivies” (dunno why you chose that term) and get rejected. Being class rank #3 is not going to affect your chances vs being class rank #1.
Sorry, Little Ivies is a term we use in my area to describe the really competitive, small liberal arts colleges like Williams, Tufts, Swarthmore, etc. It’s not an official group of schools.
They look at your entire transcript not just your ranking. As #3 with a more rigorous schedule you might have a better shot at the top schools than the #1 or #2 students if they did not take the tough classes.
Admissions officers know which schools weight GPAs and which don’t. So they will look at rank differently depending on the school. At any rate, as mentioned above, #3 versus #1 is meaningless in the scope of admissions.