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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do you locate the “high school profile” that the Dean is referencing?[/quote]

When you say "high school profile," are you referring to the high school itself or the student's high school application?  If you're referring to the high school, the UVa Admissions Office has a profile of every high school where students applying from.  These profiles list what are the hardest courses students can take at those schools, what classes are weighted or not, etc.  The Admissions Office uses these profiles to see if the applicant has taken the most rigorous classes the schools have to offer and excelled in them.  Some schools offer a lot of AP/Honors courses while other don't offer as much.  Admissions officials in all colleges and universities use these profiles to help them judge an application beyond GPAs and test scores. [/quote]

T[b]he high school counselor sends the high school profile with transcript to the schools kids apply. They don’t have a profile on every high school in the us and abroad. [/quote][/b]

I don't know why you are splitting threads.  the fact is that ANY applicant to ANY college in the US is sent a student profile by the high school to tje institution with the kids transcript.  It is what it is.  This is how public and privates in america can say (hah) to parents "well we don't rank" but the colleges can figure it out in less than 30 seconds.[/quote]

How do they figure out rank in 30 seconds if the school profile indicates that they don’t rank and it doesn’t list GPA percentiles? Unless a majority of the school’s students apply to a particular school (with a transcript for each ending up in the hands of the admissions committee), it would seem difficult to make heads or tails of the profile.

On the subject of “figuring it out”, we know that The College Board and ACT have monetized their data and sell test scores to colleges and universities, which allow them to market to potential applicants whose test score(s) fits their profile. Wouldn’t it be easy, then, for schools to reference that data to link each applicant to their test score(s), even if they applied TO?[/quote]

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