Where'd They Get That Crazy Idea...

The New York Times reports that colleges are vexed by the growing number of high schools that refuse to provide class ranking data about college-bound students, thus making it harder for admissions officers to know which students did really well and which didn't. The Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Vanderbilt calls it an "abdication of educational responsibility." Right! So ridiculous! I mean, all those high schools have to do is look at the comprehensive, publicly available, easy-to-understand information that universities like, say, Vanderbilt, provide about the academic achievement of their graduates, and just do as they do. All that important information is...where?