what if my HS does not rank students??

FWDAD
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:58:55 +0000

My son’s high school does not rank its students, nor does it allow the College Placement Office to put its students into a percentage group. Instead, it tells any college that asks about rank that it is a college prep school that is selective in its admissions, that no student has ever achieved a four point and that in my son’s case, one-third of the students in his graduating class were National Merit Semi-Finalists or Finalists. That seemed to work for my son who is a member of the Class of 2011. At the time I was told by folks who held themselves out to be familar with West Point Admissions that there are a number of schools that do not rank and that West Point has some internal way of assigning a general class rank to each applicant. They did not know if that involved assigning a specific rank based on grade point, or whether they somehow manipulated SAT scores to assign a general rank. In any event you won’t be the first person applying to West Point without a class rank. Rest assured that have devised a way to compensate for that missing ingredient in your scholastic score.