If your school does not rank do you think this is a good or bad thing?

[berryberry61]

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s 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.

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<p>Well, IMO if the HS has no history nor track record with the most competitive college to begin with, the student will probably be at some disadvantage whether he/she is ranked or not. In this example, ranking is not the issue. It is the unknown nature of the school. Let’s say this student is the top student in the class - and far better than anyone who has come thru in many years. A school in this situation can try to stress that in the GC rec’s. Just having a number ranking will not help the student</p>