You can’t have it both ways. Your previous post mentioned rank is important for NC high school students because NC law requires HSs to include rank on the transcripts, even if Harvard says they do not consider class rank . Now you say that rank is not important for the referenced NC high school students with high rates of HYSPM… acceptances because they do not rank.
My post explicitly mentioned that NCSSM is a selective public high school – not a “typical public” and not a charter — and high schools having selective admissions is the key reason why NCSSM and most so called “feeder” high schools have high rates of HYPSM… acceptances.
Roughly 1% of HS seniors apply to Harvard each year. The rate of applications is no doubt higher among private school students, higher among selective high school students, and higher among various other not “typical” publics; so it’s a safe bet that the rate of applicants among “typical publics” is less than the overall average. If I am generous and assume a 1% application rate and 5% acceptance rate at “typical publics”, then that means you’d need a senior class size of 4000 students to expect an average of 2 Harvard acceptances each year. I’m not aware of any HS in the united states with this large a senior class size. However, it is still possible to have a multiple Harvard acceptances from a non-selective public, such as the example mentioned in my earlier post with a public high school in a wealthy area that was ~10 miles from Harvard and MIT. Both factors (wealthy and located by “elite” HYPSM… typie private college) tremendously drive up the number of highly qualified applicants to HYPSM… type private colleges above the overall national average. Whether the HS ranks students or not has far less influence, particularly for Harvard, which says that they do not consider rank.