“It’s really pointless, nobody really cares about what you did in high school”
I’ll bet a lot colleges will disagree with you on that ... except the “woke”ones might.
Not really. They want you to have good grades sure, and some extra curriculars, but they don’t really care about class ranking. It’s meaningless really. So you ranked 1st, out of how many, and how stiff was the competition? They don’t have the time or interesting in researching every single high school to see if being 1st there actually matters. Better to check out your SATs and recommendation letters.