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How important is class rank for college admissions? I鈥檝e heard that schools compares your application to other students from your region. Considering that I鈥檓 from an underrepresented state, admissions will likely compare me to my hs alumni.

Do they compare you too your peers as well? Imagine you win salutatorian, and the valedictorian is a literal genius, does the Ivy League, or any college, take that into consideration?

Also, does you workload need to get progressively harder? I鈥檓 going to be taking 6-ish APs my senior year, 7-8 total classes, and these are the upper level courses (Calc BC, C Mechanics). 5-ish APs my junior year, 8 total classes, all weighted. Next year, I鈥檓 going to be taking 3 APs (Bio, Physics 1, Music Theory), which I鈥檓 confident about taking, but all together I鈥檓 taking 10 year long classes and 2 summer classes (easy honors prereqs), so 12 classes in total (2 of them DE). All of my senior classes will by weighted and 2 of my sophomore classes will be unweighted (prereqs).

Does my workload matter when comparing the two. Btw, I鈥檓 planning on majoring in biomedical engineering or something like that. My dream schools are MIT, UPenn, Brown, Harvard, and Princeton, but I鈥檓 open to a wide range of out-of-state public universities like UMich or Georgia Tech.

(Don鈥檛 worry about my EC鈥檚, they鈥檙e pretty good, I just want to focus on my academics my sophomore year)