High Schools Avoid Class Ranking, Vexing Colleges

The New York Times reports on egalitarianism run wild in America today :

The shift away from class rank began with private schools making calculations that admissions officers might not look favorably on a student with an A-minus average and strong SAT scores who ranked 25th or 35th in a talented class of 150 students.

But the movement has accelerated over the past five years or so, many deans of admissions say. Now nearly 40 percent of all high schools have either stopped ranking their students or have ceased to give that information to colleges, according to a survey released last year by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, which represents high school guidance counselors and college admissions officers.

Where is the leadership in higher education who could demand that a student has to have a class rank to be admitted to college? Especially at the elite schools where they have an excess supply of candidates.