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Does West Point take into account the competition you face in your rank? My high school is extremely selective (<10% acceptance rate) so my competition is very challenging, as you would imagine. My school doesn't rank either, but my guidance counselor said they could provide the percent of the class I'm in - would West Point accept that as an alternative? Thanks as always everyone.
My understanding from RC & FFR presentations/dialogs is that they factor in the competitiveness of your HS. And find ways to proxy class rank if the school does not provide it directly.
Same for our local Senate/Congress offices... they know and have schemes to normalize school competitiveness.
As to class rank changing with attrition... it's a fact. If there was an equal distribution of cadets which separated it would technically be neutral on rank from a statistic perspective.
But it's not, a significant % of the cadets forced to separate are due to academic or physical performance, so they are skewing the average upwards when they leave.