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.
“They want you to have good grades sure, and some extra curriculars, but they don’t really care about class ranking”
Right because now a lot of universities are using the”woke” agenda, i.e. skin color, sexual preference and gender identity to select prospective students.