Move to New HS made Son's class rank nosedive

turtletime
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:50:48 +0000

Our daughter is facing the same thing. Our local district has a specialty program for 11th/12th graders that my daughter transferred into. However, she comes from a different district than the rest of the kids… a district that had an accelerated highly gifted track but no traditional honors classes and only 1 AP through 10th grade. Her classmates came in with several weighted grade on their transcript. She’s top of her class based on 11th grade grades but overall, has only been able to move up 2 spots last year.

However, rank isn’t everything. The admissions office will see that he transferred from another school. They’ll re-calculate his GPA based on what is important to them… not what is important to his current school. The GC mentioning the difference in grading system will help too. Plus, he’s got two more years and the harder classes are coming. He may rise more than you’d think.