Move to New HS made Son's class rank nosedive

manveldad
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:58:24 +0000

We moved from Illinois to Texas. In Illinois, my son took the most rigorous curriculum and got straight A’s. He got the maximum GPA that a freshman could get.

We moved to Texas, and found out that his new school is going to include his Freshman grades in the GPA calculation. However, in Texas they use an A+, A- system, and 6pts for an A+ in AP, 5pts for an A+ in certain classes, and 4pts for an A otherwise. His A’s will only count as 3.5 and one class they agreed to count as 5.5. This will put him in barely the top third. He does have two more years at the new school, but no doubt, his freshman year will hurt him. I just hate to see this happen when my son worked so hard.

Anyways, I suppose that we can forget about him getting into University of Texas, but I wanted to know if the good private schools really take this into consideration.