<p>One thought about your son’s rank occurred to me: isn’t class rank for the purpose of college applications computed based on grades 9-11? So, in that case, even if your son’s senior grades went up significantly in the first two quarters, wouldn’t that be too late to be reflected in the rank being sent to schools? Or, do they recompute rankings during the year at your school. If not, perhaps the GC could write something about his improvement and indicate his judgement about how that might ultimately affect his ranking.</p>