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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. Being ranked in the top 10 at your school guarantees nothing. Harvard rejects countless valedictorians.

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]

Incorrect, you are always competing first with other applicants from your school.[/quote]

Incorrect, you are competing with the entire country, especially to the most selective colleges.[/quote]

Yes you are competing with the entire world. But the first filter is you are going to be compared with your own HS peers. If you do not make this cut, everything is mute.

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Okay.  It's an intensely competitive, cutthroat, rat race.  It continues once you get there.  It's not for everyone but it works some people and that's okay.[/quote]

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