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<p>UCs do not consider current rank at all, although they ask high schools to rank order UC admissions GPAs (calculated as specified by UC) for the purpose of setting the top 9% threshold for the following years’ classes for Eligibility in Local Context. Theoretically, if UC began to consider current class rank, it could ask for class ranks based on UC admissions GPA to avoid differences caused by different high school GPA and rank calculation methods (though non-California high schools might still balk at this).</p>
<p>However, it appears that most universities that use class rank just trust the high schools’ method of calculating class rank. For example, Texas public universities use whatever the high schools calculate, rather than specifying a particular GPA formula and weighting to be used to calculate class rank.</p>
<p>Private universities recruiting nationally are unlikely to have any practical ability to impose a class ranking scheme on high schools the way that state universities could theoretically impose one on in-state high schools.</p>