What do you do if your school doesn't tell you the ranking?Answered
My school doesn't include the class rank. What should I do?
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Admissions officers will evaluate your Common or Coalition App against those in your school and school district primarily. So if your school district doesn't rank, that is not a detriment to their ability to evaluate you. Why? Because if 5 or 10 people apply from your district, just based on GPA alone, they will be able to rank the applicants in order of strongest to weakest. And just alone on your transcript of courses taken, they will be able to rank the strongest to weakest in terms of course rigor. Same goes for SAT or ACT scores.
So if 2 people have the same UWGPA, say 4.0, their course rigor may inform the admissions officers about who is stronger because 1 student might have taken 3 APs and the other 9 APs. Therefore the WGPA will be different as well, like 4.15 vs 4.40 for example. And perhaps the applicant with 3 APs didn't take the SAT or ACT or did poorly on them and doesn't wish to report the score. While the applicant with 9 APs may have taken the ACT 3 times with a super-score of 34. In this example, the college admissions officer would score the 2nd student with 9APs and a high test score, the stronger candidate and lean toward giving them the spot. Again, other factors matter as well. So lets say the 1st candidate is a first gen/low income/LatinX/non-binary student. Then I feel, the admissions officer has a more difficult calculation to make. It's possible that the 1st student is more attractive to the college because they want to have more diversity, equity, and inclusion applicants.
Hope that is helpful.
Within CV you can calculate chancing without class rank, I'd assume it would be similar at an actual university. It doesn't seem like rank would be a vital piece of information, especially since it includes so many factors like class size, type of school etc. Universities with large international student populations would focus on class rank even less since they're used to seeing different schooling systems, so if you're applying to a university with lots of internationals then its even less of a concern.
Overall I wouldn't worry about it, especially if your grades compensate for it and it's clear that you fit the university's standards in the classroom.
If your school doesn´t tell you about class rank, then your course rigor and GPA takes an even bigger factor. Depends on the school you are going to really.
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Out of curiosity, if I apply ED to a school and I'm the only one from my school ED'ing to that school, will they compare me with other students' weighted GPAs? Or would they just compare me with the rest of their ED pool?