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Schools Avoid Class Ranking, Vexing Colleges – New York Times

Forty-percent of college applicants come from schools that do not disclose their class rank, and college admissions officers say this hurts those students chances of getting in. A lot of this, sure, is context, but could some of it also be pressure from _US News_? Either way, grading on a curve, so to speak, is always fraught with pitfalls.