What does it mean when people say "competitive high school"?

<p>kwu, at least for my school, the GC’s scatter chart is actually a simple table of percentages per GPA range. Which is vaguely like decile/quartile rank, except that if you make a certain GPA, you’re guaranteed to stay in that category.</p>

<p>And my point about non-ranking at a “competitive” HS (for various definitions of that) still stands.</p>