<p>I know that adcoms know how challenging some HSs are, but what about other schools that they do not know about?
They will read the HS profileand GC's comment and decide, but what kind of description of the school would make the adcoms think that the school is challenging? example?</p>
<p>apps ask for highest GPA in the student's class, and if w/o rank, how would adcoms figures out the possible rank?</p>
<p>thanx.</p>
<p>Uninsured, each school is different in their practices, and so there are no standards by which high school guidance departments have to abide by. It behooves high-performing, challenging high schools to reinforce the competitive stature of their schools such that their students will be given every opportunity to be compared well against other applicants to a given college.</p>
<p>Here is an example of a school profile (from Lynbrook H.S. in San Jose) -- NOT my community's high school by the way -- which offers the type of information that college adcoms will weigh in evaluating an applicant's admission application:</p>
<p>Yes, it's all in the profile.</p>
<p>Here's my school (private) for contrast:</p>
<p>Now in a bigger contrast, here is my non-competitive school
<a href="http://www.srsd.net/highschool/departments/guidance/postsecond/doc/Profile.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.srsd.net/highschool/departments/guidance/postsecond/doc/Profile.pdf</a>
Note the SAT averages hahaha</p>