<p>real issue- what do you do if your high school doesn't do class rankings? it is impossible to get a class rank from my high school since they just don't do it. USNA admissions is really driven off of class rank it seems. has anyone experienced this issue and found a way around it?</p>
<p>my high school doesn't do class rank. i'm not sure what information they used (for most colleges there's a counselor form and it asks the counselor to estimate if they don't rank, but i don't remember a form like that for navy) but there was no real problem that i encountered with it.</p>
<p>Yeah, hersheybear is right. USNA will take care of it, when it comes to that, they encounter plenty of schools that don't do class rank. I believe USNA does ask your counselor an estimate, don't worry USNA is very thorough.</p>
<p>Son's high school does/did not provide an estimate. On the school profile is the grade distribution broken into tenths, they have the requesting institution then estimate where with in the class the student would fall.</p>
<p>Our school does not rank students.
At the same time, class rank rates highly in the whole person score, so having it helps.</p>
<p>We met with the school officials to present our case. Truth be told, they know exactly where you sit- they just don't always choose to make it public.
Speak to them and ask them to send it directly to the USNA admissions folks; most schools will comply as long as you are not given the information.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>We faced the same thing four years back when my son was starting the USNA application process. Our local HS does not publish class rank as a way to "reduce the competitive frenzy" or something like that. </p>
<p>What they did publish as a fairly detailed distribution graph of GPAs for the class as part of the high school profile that went out to all colleges. And they did provide the student's GPA as part of the grades. Put the two together with a little ruler action and it was not hard to to figure out a pretty close approximation of relative rank ("see that bump? That's my kid there!").</p>
<p>Further, one of the guidance counselors who had been in the admissions game a long time had been empowered to go off in a secret closet and calculate class rank for the very small number of kids that wanted to go to SAs. It took a special request (a "pretty please"), but what seemed like an intractable problem was in fact one that was successfully worked around. My son got an appointment (and ultimately declined it - I am still recovering).</p>
<p>Best wishes for your success as you pursue the appointment. Just going through the process will be a good learning experience.</p>