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I really think if schools went back to having class rank, college decisions would make a lot more sense to parents. [/quote]

Not really. You’re not competing against kids from your school but from schools across the country. [b]Being ranked in the top 10 at your school guarantees nothing. Harvard rejects countless valedictorians.[/b]

Moreover, the rank will be determined purely by gpa but admissions is determined by much more. If a lower ranked kid at your school got into a better college, then that kid had something else (ECs, essay, whatever) but that higher-ranked kids parents will still be big mad about it.[/quote]

This is the trope that AO's from T20 like to throw around.

There are 30,000 to 40,000 HS and AO's at T20 know which are the top 40-50 HS are in US. The top 2 to 3 students in these top 50 HS's in USA, are going to be treated quite differently from HS's that have few applications and admits to these colleges.

So not all valedictorians are not treated the same. Saying we "rejects countless valedictorians" might be technically correct but also not really true when you are from a very competitive high school.
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Agree.  Is the valedictorian from one of the top high schools in the country getting rejected from the top schools?  Not all high schools are created equal, not even close.[/quote]

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