How Important is Class Rank

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/education/05rank.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/education/05rank.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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

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<p>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). </p>

<p>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.</p>