<p>At the risk of offending my cyber-friend xiggi, I’ll repeat a post that I made pages ago. IMO, one thing the Univ of California got right was that the University itself decides class rank based on University-approved courses. Thus, the University of California does not care one whit how an individual high school ranks its own students bcos the UC re-ranks those same kids based on the Univeristy’s own, approved academic criteria. Voila: the University has “control” over its own admissions.</p>