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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just find this so, so odd.  The "Big 3" are supposed to be elite high schools, above the fray socially and academically, among the best in the country, and with outstanding guidance departments and college placement.

Yet, here are parents on an anonymous board fishing for information on where their kids' GPAs place them among their classmates and what colleges they can expect to get into.  I have to wonder if this ever goes on at, say, the elite boarding schools or top NYC privates.  I'll bet it doesn't, certainly not to this extent, and it makes me wonder -- just how special is the Big 3, really, if the families there act like this?       [/quote]

OP. Thanks PPs. very useful information/feedback.

To this specific post, let me say that confusion regarding one's DC's prospects arises for a few reasons (in combination): 1. Communication from school tends to be much more cautious/opaque than might be imagined. 2. The apparent randomness of outcomes is such that guidance counsellors cannot predict the upside, in particular, with confidence. [b]3. Schools almost never talk about relative standing except in the vaguest of terms. [/b]4. There are clearly factors other than GPA/SAT that matter for outcomes and it is very hard to infer much by looking at outcomes for older students who have graduated.

All this is to say that I agree with the surprise/frustration expressed by the post. It is quite hard to raise any of these/related issues with the school.

Not sure how much this is a Big 3 problem as I don't know how this works at other schools in the area/elsewhere.

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Why does it matter where the kid ranks?  As other posters have suggested, once you breach a certain threshold things like rank don't matter.  I'm guessing the guidance counselors don't want to talk about rank because it only broadly correlates with Big 3 college admissions and the counselors don't want to mislead parents into attaching much importance to it.   [/quote]

Agreed -- but what is that threshold?[/quote]

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