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The Washington Post reports.

High schools are doing away with class rank. What does that mean for college admissions?

For many of the same reasons that some high schools now allow multiple valedictorians, many are doing away with rank, making it secret or changing the system to allow multiple students to share the top spot. This has created a new problem for college admissions officers: How should class rank figure into a student’s application when so many students come from schools that no longer provide it?

School officials said they want students to focus on their own accomplishments without worrying so much where they fall in the pecking order. And with the proliferation of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses — which can boost a student’s grade-point average above a 4.0 — emphasizing rank could push students to overload themselves during their high school years.

At Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., all 117 valedictorians also share the No. 1 rank, designations they are awarded if they have a weighted GPA above 4.0. At North Hills High outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., rank is secret and is only released if a scholarship application requires it — and even then, the school sends it in a sealed envelope directly to administrators. At Whitney M. Young Magnet High in Chicago, which still designates a single valedictorian, rank is done only internally and the school reveals just the No. 1 and No. 2 students at the end of senior year, when they appoint the valedictorian and salutatorian.