Competitive with 3.86 Weighted GPA?

srobin
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:56:47 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I found a copy of his transcript from March of this year. It does say he is ranked 20 out of 347 students. I double checked after the comments about it being odd given his GPA. I know student’s are usually ranked by their grades. I’m assuming this means he is doing better than the other 327 students in his class. Is his rank due to the AP classes?

His HS has had a few students get admitted to selective schools. I believe most students apply to state schools if they go at all. His school offers a decent amount of AP classes. it has a reputation of having a high drop out rate and is perceived by many in our community not to a great school. I disagree with most and I think it is the students not putting forth the effort to take advantage of what they offer. Compared to the small country HS where he was this HS is 100% better.

Freshman year was as follows:

Eng 9 Honors- 1st semester 81 2nd semester 75
Algebra 1 - 1st semester 90 2nd semester 85
PE - 1st semester 85 2nd semester 65
Physical Sci Advanced - 94 2nd semester 74
Other classes were electives with A’s.

At the start of his Sophomore year he seemed to have found himself again and all grade since then have been A’s.