Has anyone been denied admittance to a college/university because of class rank?

Question

My child's school makes a big deal about class rank but I don't see too many colleges that even discuss it on there admissions pages. Maybe I'm missing something.

It seems strange that a high school would focus so much on this issue because 50% of students no matter what will be in the top half and 50% in the bottom.

Answer 1

Depends where and when but most certainly.

Answer 2

It is hard to know why anyone is denied admission to any university, because they don't tell you what the problem might have been, but if you look at the College Board's website, it is clear that many of the better schools, at the very least, list this as one of their most important criteria.

It isn't really so strange, since it overcomes the problem of grade inflation which is otherwise rampant. If a student has a 4.2 GPA, but is ranked #487 out of 700 in the class, it says that the student isn't really as extraordinary as the GPA would imply. Similarly, if a school is very tough, and a student is #1 or 2, but only has a 3.8, that won't be held against the student. The other reason this has become an issue is that some schools offer a plethora of AP, IB, and Honors classes, while others don't, and they didn't want to disadvantage a student who graduated from a school in a poorer district.

Answer 3

The better schools care a lot about this. Look at Princeton Review. One of the statistics they publish is what percent of those admitted are in the top 10% of their HS class.

Here are some statistics quoted by schools for the percent of students in the top 10% of their class:

Harvard . . . . 95%
NYU . . . . 67%
Duke . . . . 90%
UC-Berkeley . . . . 98%
Villanova . . . . 51%
Minnesota . . . . 39%

Then you have schools like the CSU schools that don't report it -- because the number is small.

Yes -- rank in class is important, because it determines the quality of the university you can get into. You are right that 50% are in the bottom half. They are the ones who don't get into good schools.

Answer 4

do not hassle lots approximately your score. The score incredibly says not something. as long as your grades are passing and you try your superb and totally applying your self, do not hassle. In my senior type i grew to become into 134 out of a hundred and forty. yet I had a three.0 GPA, and that i had to artwork incredibly annoying for that. I went to a aggressive college. So in the commencing up seems, my score regarded undesirable, yet once you already know that your score is predicated on the GPAs of classmates greater desirable than yours, it makes score pointless.