<p>Our local public HS (upper middle class HS) did away with class rank a few years ago … but does provide colleges info on which decile (sp?) students are in. A friend on the school board says that the data suggests the change has not effected the ability of grads to get into top schools … but to me it seems the big con is that the very top students are not identified and it might hurt them at top colleges (the colleges need to estimate how highly ranked the applicant is instead of knowing they are 5/500).</p>