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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think if schools went back to having class rank, college decisions would make a lot more sense to parents.  I have a 2023 and a 2026 at two single sex private schools, not in DC.  Familiar with their classes and a year or two around them.  Since schools have cum laude and give grade based awards, contrary to dcum belief, it’s easy to see that admissions actually do very closely track weighted gpa and test scores unless a kid totally whiffs on extracurriculars. This is supported by scattergrams.  Sure, there may be a kid or two with a rare talent that does better than stats might predict, but it isn’t that common.

I think there are a lot of affluent schools with a significant amount of grade inflation where it is either hard for colleges to differentiate between kids leading to what seems to be random results or parents don’t realize kid isn’t even in top 20 percent of class because there is so much grade inflation.[/quote]

Also agree that attending a school that will award a rank or divulge rank, it seems to relate to admission success.   Out district only publicly awards val and sal but these ranked positions have enjoyed hypsm success.[/quote]

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