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I think that the way in which the word "rank" is being used may be inconsistent. The article uses the word "rank" but it could be interpreted to be using that word in the context of asserting that Sidwell "ranks" applicants as "excellent" "very good" "good" etc., and not in the context of providing a strict numerical ranking.

And then, perhaps when PP asked the school, the question was "do you rank students when presenting them to colleges" and the answer from Sidwell was "no" because the school does not rank the students numerically. If PP in fact asked Sidwell "do you qualitatively rate students against their peers as 'excellent' etc, as the Secondary School Report requests?" and they said they did not, that would be interesting.[/quote]

This.

The school does not say, "here is a list of the 14 kids applying to your school: Bobby, Jane, Mikey, Robert, Ralph, Mary, Beth, etc."
What they do, and they have been upfront about it, is provide a school profile, that includes a section about the entire curriculum and where this particularly applicant falls in that curriculum, Most rigorous, rigorous, Less Rigorous...giving the colleges an opportunity to assess the whole student and their academic achievement in context.

Pretty much ALL independent schools do this.[/quote]

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