G.P.A. and class rank are so firmly entrenched in our educational process that most schools will not be able to do away with them. However, we should not expect the ranking of students in order of their accumulated grades to be a fair ranking, nor should we expect that any attempt to make the system fairer will produce fewer problems than the system it has modified.
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