<p>The local school used to rank, but stopped just when QMP entered high school. It is probably not a coincidence that the year before, one of the school’s candidates for a Presidential Scholarship (the national program) was rejected from Princeton. Connecting the dots, I suspect that GC’s might have guessed that the rejection was caused by 2 A- grades in 10th grade literature, which had the effect of bumping the student out of the top 5%. (Grades are unweighted, locally.)</p>
<p>My high school ranked, based on unweighted grades given on a % scale, and carried the GPA computation to 6 figures. Really, it got a little silly. The school did, however, reserve the top 10 spots for students in the “academic” classes.</p>
<p>All in all, I think not ranking is preferable.</p>