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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do all the best NoVa publics still disclose class rank on the transcript shared with colleges? There's your issue; it allows UVA to discriminate against kids outside of the top 10%. It makes admissions job a lot easier, while allowing them to goose their common data set #s, which is how US News calculates rankings.[/quote]
[b]No dice. FCPS doesn't rank.[/quote][/b]

You can tell by honor societies, AP courses, overall junior year GPA compared to cohorts, etc.  A 4.34 (average GPA for UVA now) at application signals top ten percent.  Also the college counselor knows in order to guide the students to the most suitable schools.  Admissions readers are adept at reading the transcripts and can tell.  The Jefferson Scholar program (UVA full ride run by alums) specifically asks you to state rank (our school didn't rank either but the head had to answer the question).  Also FCPs awards valedictorian to anyone with over a 4.0 (which doesn't make any sense to me) so it's very clear to everyone involved that those 50 valedictorians are top 10-15%.[/quote]

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