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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA has possible the most transparent admissions of any college.  It’s almost entirely class rank.[/quote]
DeanJ just posted over at CC that "rank isn’t the most important factor, as only about 34% of applicants [b]have that stat[/b]."
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Is she saying that only 34% of their applicants go to a high school which releases ranking data? My kid's FCPS school didn't rank, but I'm pretty sure they provided GPA ranges and the percentile of the class in that range in the school profile they send to colleges. It's not hard to figure it out from there.

It's these sorts of answers that annoy me when it comes to Dean J. She knows they have more detailed information than specifically "class rank".  [/quote]

APS doesn't rank kids who have a weighted 4.0 or higher, which at W-L is over 200 kids. So rank doesn't really exist.[/quote]

But if you're an AO lining up 50 kids from W-L (or Yorktown, or Wakefield) who have applied you can see the range of GPAs. Yes - rank doesn't matter as far as what is on the bottom of the transcript, but it still exists.[/quote]

THIS. Even without rank, UVA and other schools that get a lot of apps from each high school can easily deduce rank. they also track stats and admit/defer/deny decision year to year from high schools (ie the college version of scoir). counselor letters often will say this person has the highest GPA or in the top handful or in the top 10%...when that is in some letters and not others it isn't hard.  even ivies with fewer apps from the high school can easily discern approx rank. more importantly, relative rigor . UVA cares about both, as all top 25 schools do. [/quote]

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