<p>I don't think it would be very fair if a student is ranked #1 yet attends a school with a graduating class of perhaps 20 students. So are high schools always forced to release their class sizes or can they simply give the student's ranking without the class size?</p>
<p>I do not believe I have ever seen a school profile that did not list class size, although I have seen dozens that don’t list rank. If the school lists rank, class size is needed for context.</p>
<p>By the same token, in a class of 20, the fifth ranked student will only be top 25%. And if it’s a highly rigorous school, that’s not fair either. Class size is always required for context.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I have seen schools that don’t release ranks or class size, but maybe I’m crazy. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I have seen schools that don’t release ranks or class size, but maybe I’m crazy. </p>
<p>Why would class size be a secret?</p>
<p>Special Circumstances.</p>
<p>That’s supposed to be an answer? This conversation is pointless.</p>
<p>Most schools that have super small class sizes don’t rank their students.</p>
<p>In a class of 5, the lowest ranked student could be both 5th in the class and last in the class.</p>
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Much of the college applications process is unfair. Some kids go to “feeder schools” where a college will take 20, 30, 40, 50 kids from one high school. Some kids come from families that can afford ACT/SAT prep. Some families employ writing professionals to help kids write essays. Recruited athletes often don’t have to have the GPA and test scores that non-athletes do, and it’s the same with URM’s, legacies and developmental cases. This is just one more “unfair” part of the applications process that you need to get past.</p>
<p>My husband was a valedictorian. I had been impressed, admired and in awe for about twenty years until I learned the class size. It was 17. Fraud!!!</p>