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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids and admissions will be told where the kids falls in their class--ranking or percentile.[/quote]

I think this is right. All those schools that stopped ranking students are going to have to start again.  And/or kids will apply to a much wider range of schools because they aren't sure where they will get in, which will make it harder for colleges to predict yield so they will rely more on waitlists so kids will apply to even more schools.  The craziness of this year's application results will just continue.[/quote]

But this doesn’t give a high school to high school comparison like a standardized test. Is the next step to rank high schools too? If so, the relative resources a high school has will become the next ground for contention. So, TJ gets ranked number one in academics, but it gets a demerit for too many fancy resources. So, on a re-leveled playing field, TJ gets ranked 10th, or something like that. So, a student’s “score” is their student percentile ranking x their school ranking? Can’t you imagine all the more pressure to take AP classes and all the b*tching about grades? This would be a nightmare. [b]I would rather keep the current testing system and include a curve for certain socioeconomic (not racial) groups.[/b] [/quote]

+1  this is essentially what the College Board has done with their "Landscape" tool for colleges to understand the context of the school community. [/quote]

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