Which is better: Low Class Rank @ Rigorous School vs High Class Rank @ Avg School?

fledgling
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:28:09 +0000

At the rigorous high schools, keep in mind that many of them don’t rank. So you don’t necessarily have to conform to the “top 10% rule” if you attend one of them. Case in point: my HS is one of the “rigorous schools” you specified in your title. We’ve had at least 6 kids out of 85 admitted to Ivies (3 to Yale SCEA, 3 to Cornell ED, potentially 1 other to Dartmouth). None of these people were inducted into the Cum Laude Society towards the end of their junior year (meaning they were not in the top 10%).