<p>Are you kidding?</p>
<p>Because GPAs and class ranks reflect years of work ethic and academic performances while the SATs really only reflect one’s situation on that particular saturday morning. </p>
<p>While the correlation is pretty high between score and academic performances, there are a lot of outliers. On both sides. Great students who get sucky scores and morons who get 2300s. Thats why the admissions process is beyond just that score.</p>
<p>How can you say that class rank is not a better method of appraisal? It evaluates the student in terms of his peers and the education received. Be it private or the worst public school around. Admissions are about the kids performance in terms of their surrounding so that ranking is very important.</p>
<p>A kid being ranked 2/119 tells a hell of a lot more about his academics than a 4-digit number of 2080. It doesn’t say if the kid just filled in the bubbles to draw a flower, if he’s a gifted academic kid, if he spent 4-months in an expensive private SAT prep course or if he studied out of a used copy of the blue book.</p>
<p>God, you haven’t been an asset to your kids academics if this is what you’ve been preaching. You have a very skewed and may I had, highly prejudicial view of “education”. Glad you’re not on any adcom, no offense.</p>