My younger daughter transferred when she was a junior. We had the opposite situation where her old high school did not weight and her new school did. Her GPA was very close to 4.0, but her ranking within her new school would would have been below 10%. I had to advocate for her to get her new school to weigh her advance courses. Another issue was her old high school did not designate AP courses, but many of her courses were AP equivalent or higher. After some discussions and negotiations with new school, they did give her extra credits for those advance classes. I was the one who worked with the school. I didn’t leave it to D2 to do it. One thing I will point out is the school tends to be more protective of their long time students rather than new transfers, especially when ranking is important with scholarships.
In the OP’s case, I would ask the old high school to send his transcript with indicative ranking within his class along with his first semester transcript from his new school. I would also get recs from his old school and maybe one from his new school.
When D2 transferred junior year I advised her to get to know few teachers well I order to get good recs.
If your kid is looking for scholarship money then his ranking will be important. His application should be read in reference to where he attended school for 3 years.
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