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<p>Trust me, colleges and universities can deduce where you stand among your classmates simply by looking at scatter diagrams that your HS guidance counselors will send them. Even if your high school doesn’t rank, and faithfully stands by its commitment to fairness and non-competitiveness… GPA will continue to thwart Ivy League aspirants.</p>
<p>A good number of high schools these days no longer rank their students, because it’s rather pointless–especially at the most competitive schools.</p>
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<p>Ah, just to clarify, there are only and handful of boarding schools in New York, and none of them are as competitive as the Specialized High Schools and the private schools on the Upper East Side. The former are public schools, and the latter offer generous merit and need based scholarships to a good number of their most qualified applicants. My own school offers full scholarships to all accepted students. “Boarding school” just makes me think of “rich” and “privileged,” and many schools in NY are remarkably diverse in all senses of the word.</p>