Class rank only reported in weighted GPA

2Devils
Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:40:50 +0000

His GPA is the bottom 50%, there is no way around that. Not wanting to challenge himself with honors led to this GPA, which is fine, as there are many schools out there that he can find for the level of challenge he prefers.
Does your HS have Naviance? Ours does, and our school also provides only Weighted GPA on the profile(and on naviance), to be used as a rough idea of rank, with a distribution listed as %s, like your school. Naviance for schools with lots of applications is the best way on ours to see where the kids with similar GPAs end up, and where they don’t get in: weighted GPA does tend to correlate fairly consistently with admissions, and more than scores even before test optional. The exceptions tend to be the opposite of your son: relatively lower wGPA but challenged themselves with maximum rigor (ie, the B/B+ in the AP class does seem to be better than the A in regular, at our school ). For example, our 3 “top” instate schools essentially do not take from the bottom half of the class unless it is a recruited athlete situation, BUT many other outstanding public and private schools readily take from the bottom half and even bottom 10% (JMU, USouthCarolina, Syracuse, Elon, CNU, and many more). If you do not have access to Naviance, set up a meeting with the college counseling staff to discuss what schools are typically “match” schools for your child’s GPA.