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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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Nah. A school that has tens of thousands of applications is simply not going to make separate piles of applications by high school and make its first cut decision by comparing the applicants within each pile.[/quote]

Saw this posted on a former MI AO FB page:

“Remember, during the admissions process, students are compared to others at their high school and evaluated with consideration as to what was available to them.

As admissions counselors, we’d ask ourselves, “is this one of the best students we will see from this high school for this application cycle (academically, in terms of rigor, extracurricularly)?” As a counselor, I would regularly add comments like, “student is well qualified with strong grades and excellent test scores, however, their curriculum is not one of the most demanding that we will see from this high school.”

Admissions (at selective institutions) is not just looking for students who are academically qualified and “strong,” but rather, those who are truly at the top of their class in the aforementioned ways. So, while your child’s school might not rank, don’t think that there is not still an in depth assessment done during review analyzing where the student falls in their graduating class. “[/quote]

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