<p>blueberry: It is clear that not ranking is not an issue at your school with a very impressive track record but is it an issue for the student who is from a HS with no track record of sending students to Barron’s most competitive colleges? An application to one of these OOS schools may well be the first ap the college has ever received from our HS. If you compound that with no rank will it still not disadvantage the student? It is probably already a disadvantage being from a school without a history in a state with lots of history.</p>