My son attends a magnet school for engineering. This is a high school that he had to apply to, and meet certain criteria to attend. Not only did he have to be in the top 10% in his middle school science and math classes, he also needed high test scores on our state mandated achievement tests. There was a whole list of academic achievements as well as personal goals section to be accepted. There are a lot of very smart and gifted students in his school. He's definitely not one of the tops in his class, I think he would be somewhere in the upper middle. How important is class ranking to a college? Part of this process requires us to provide that info, and I am just wondering how a college looks at class rankings. Obviously the higher that you are ranked, the better. But how about for someone that attends a school like this but hovers in the middle?