<p>From the Harvard Crimson, March 8, 2006:</p>
<p>Officials Dismiss Ranking Concerns</p>
<p>With high schools steadily abandoning class rankingsfrustrating many college admissions officersHarvard admissions officials said they are unfazed by the decrease in quantitative information that high schools provide about students.</p>
<p>Many administrators, including those at Brown University, Vanderbilt University, and Swarthmore College, said that decisions not to rank high school students have hurt the evaluation processes at their schools, The New York Times reported last week.</p>
<p>Admissions officials at Harvard College say they seek out more information when class rankings are not provided, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis 70-73 wrote in an e-mail. </p>
<p>[…]Cambridge Rindge and Latin School administrators said that they still rank their students for practical purposes.</p>
<p>We have a lot of scholarships that still use rankings, said Cambridge Rindge and Latin School principal Sybil N. Knight. We wouldnt want to deny those opportunities to those students.</p>
<p>And some undergraduates also acknowledged the practicality of class rankings.</p>
<p>California actually uses a system that allows the top five percent of students to be assured into one of their top four picks in a UC school, Obi Ugwu-Oju 09, a graduate of Edison High School in Fresno, California, said.
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