<p>I have been told that this is the reality concerning the top students from well known high schools who are applying applying to the top lacs and universities. By comparing the GPAs of its aplicants from John Doe High School a school like Harvard or Yale will effecitively rank the GPAs of students from that school. Given that most universities have some preconcieved guidelines for how many students they will accept from each of these high schools in a given year, these schools’ abandonment of class rank is not all that significant. THE GPAs BASICALLY PROVIDE THE CLASS RANK.</p>