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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]D[b]o you know what can be done if a high school doesn't rank?  My DS's high school doesn't rank, but will reveal that 7% of the class has a GPA of 4.51 or above.  DS is clearly over WGPA 4.6.  This sounds like top 5% to me, but there is no way to prove it.[/quote][/b]

The answer is that each high school provides to every college who requests it a "profile" of its senior high school class. That profile indicates what APs are offers and how many students are taking those APs.  So once a college receives said application from a student one of the first things it does (via "readers" hired on a temp basis by the admissions office) is to line up your student's classes, AP courses and GPA with the "profile".  Every institution does this and can instantly tell if your child with a 3.4 is in the top 10% of its class, top 5%, or mid 50%.  So ignore the schools when they say "we don't rank".  They don't - but they provide the colleges with all the tools to allow them to rank your child.  That's how we know certain schools like UVA can say that 94% of its incoming class ranked in the top ten percent of their high school's courses.  Also, your own high school counselor must check off a box indicatiing whether or not your child has taken the most rigorous courses offered in high school. This is critical that you talk to your high school counselor and check this out.  It's particularly crucial with public high schools like the top ones in NOVa  which offer extensive math and science courses well beyond calculus, into linear, statistics, coding, computational math and other advanced math courses that privates normally aren't equipped to offer.[/quote]

While it is true that the schools provide profiles, they may not have enough info to generate class rank, but they do help compare applicants from the same school.  But that has no relation to colleges saying x% were in the top ten percent.  Those figures are derived solely from the schools that actually rank  their students.  They disregard the unranked for those calculations.[/quote]

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