1.   Admissions officials said the discrepancy was due in part to the decline in the number of schools that are supplying class rank.

2.   Class rank, on the other hand, can be deceptive when students attend low-performing schools.

3.   Eileen M. Khoury, coordinator of guidance for Lawrence, Mass. schools, said one problem is that schools calculate class rank differently.

4.   I never bothered to learn my class rank since I thought that knowledge would do little to make me happy.

5.   If that happened, and a draft board needed men, high grades and class rank would be essential to avoiding Vietnam.

6.   In addition, they are rejecting applicants who need more than two terms of remedial work, and a high class rank alone no longer guarantees acceptance.

7.   Officials are unsure about the broad impact of the changes because until now admissions have focused on class rank and SAT scores.

8.   Overall, Asians and Latinos are rapidly moving into middle- and upper-middle class ranks, a recent report by Rodriguez shows.

9.   Still, the smallest differences in satisfaction or confidence might be reflected in the smallest differences in grades, which result in big differences in class rank and honors.

10.   There is no such thing as class rank, but an honor roll for effort is posted every week.