How Important is Class Rank

gibby
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:52:55 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/education/05rank.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0



Now nearly 40 percent of all high schools have either stopped ranking their students or have ceased giving that information to colleges



The article is 5 years old, so I imagine today more than half of high schools no longer provide ranking or have guidance counselor’s check those boxes on the Secondary School Report (SSR).

That said, when a high school does not provide rank, a college can simply put all the applications it receives from each high school in GPA order to determine ranking.