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Class Rank
Percentile Calculator
Are you in the Top 10%? Top 25%? Enter your rank and class size to find your exact percentile and see how competitive you are for college admissions.
Why does Class Rank matter?
College admissions officers use class rank to compare you against your peers. Because different high schools have different grading scales (and different levels of grade inflation), your raw GPA might not tell the whole story. Being in the top 10% of your class is a universally understood metric of academic excellence, regardless of your school's specific grading system.
Frequently Asked Questions
Class rank is calculated by ordering all students in your graduating class by their cumulative GPA, from highest to lowest. The student with the highest GPA is ranked #1. Your rank percentile is your rank divided by the total number of students.
Most high schools and colleges look at weighted class rank, because it rewards students who took harder classes (like AP or IB). If they used unweighted rank, a student who took all easy classes and got a 4.0 would be ranked higher than a student with a 3.9 who took all APs.
Being in the top 10% is considered excellent and is highly competitive for elite universities (many state schools even guarantee admission to the top 10%). Top 25% is very strong and competitive for most universities. Top 50% means you are above average.
Many high schools have stopped ranking students to reduce toxic competition and stress. If your school doesn't rank, colleges will look closer at your course rigor, GPA, and school profile to determine how you compare to your peers.