<p>I’m not “missing” that, simply trying to point out to the OP that the system her son’s current school is using is plenty fair given that the coursework he took at his former school was not as challenging as what his classmates took. It’s irrelevant that he might have done as well if he started the new school in 9th grade because he didn’t and they can only go on the data supplied. Class rank, in my opinion, is not a good indicator of how well kids will do in college. It’s an indication of how well they did in high school. Also, maybe your child’s private school curriculum was harder than the public school down the road, but was it harder than a public school elsewhere in another state, maybe yes, maybe no. With no real system in place to rank high schools across the country the only “standard” colleges have are the SAT and ACT and personally I put more weight on how students do on those tests then GPA and class rank.</p>