<p>My HS has ~725 students or so per grade and is a very strong school, with best students going to HYP each year. As it is, the competition here is cut-throat, with the best minds each trying to get that “valedictorian” status by taking the toughest classes and maintaining top-notch grades. Right now, we don’t give out class ranks. If we did begin to do so, competition would become unbearable, with already determined students now realizing that colleges will see their precise position in the ladder. That, I understand, the reason a lot of good schools don’t have ranking.</p>