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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry - PP here; found the article below.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3153047/equity-grading-fairfax-county-family-search-class-rank/[/quote]

I don't buy this. Colleges want to know student rank to gauge performance compared to direct peers.  I don't think FCPS publishes rank to the students.  But I would put on money on rank being on the 'official' transcript that goes to colleges.[/quote]

Rank is not on the official transcript that goes to colleges.

They send a high school profile to colleges. It will include data on what GPA the top 5, 10, 15… percent have. [/quote]

Consider this from the perspective of a college admissions officer,  who receives thousands of application and among them are those from TJ, Langley, or McLean. Colleges understand that they receive limited information from high schools regarding class ranking, and when they receive hundreds of applications from each of those top ranked high schools schools, they are faced with the challenge of selecting just a few dozen applicants to extend offers to. As a result, they have had no choice but to develop their own criteria to identify the top ten percent of applicants. In this process, particular attention is paid to the coursework, especially the most rigorous courses. College admissions officers know that a TJ student who has taken coursework three levels beyond the minimum required AP Calculus AB, like Discrete Mathematics is almost certainly in the top ten percent of their high school.  This entire equity diversity proposition that just the TJ label is good enough, even with Cs and Ds, to gain admission into a reasonable college is a bogus promo.  If the student is an equity admit, colleges know how to spot them.  All said, why would a college admit a student that has a subpar high school gpa into a competitive STEM major with even more challenging coursework? 
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