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[quote=Anonymous]I doubt that it affects admissions at all. Many HS's no longer rank at all. APS just takes this kind of odd IMO middle road of not ranking any students with a 4.0+ GPA but giving everyone below 4.0 a rank #. It's to cut down on cut-throat competition. Anyone who gets a 4.0+ gets a rank=1 on their transcript and they are all noted in the program as "valedictorians". APS doesn't have a traditional singular valedictorian/salutatorian. A student will speak at the graduation but that's based on some kind of competition, I think? or nomination by teachers? I suppose for a college that doesn't pay much attention to the school profile a student reporting a rank of "1" even if they really are just in the top third of the class might be helpful? I know DD (who just barely made the 4.0 level) felt weird putting rank=1 on her common app. But the alternative was to say the school doesn't rank while her transcript clearly does provide a rank. [/quote]
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