Rank/Weight Dilemma

snowballer
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:49:10 +0000

I go to a very competitive public high school. It is consistently in the Newsweek Top 100 HS Rankings, usually between ranks 70 and 50. Students do very very well, but my HS does not rank or weight AT ALL. The best students apply to Ivies and certainly are qualified but they never ever get in, unless they are athletes. I almost certain this is due to the fact that my HS doesnt rank. At a neighboring high school, which is less competitive, but still top 100 (we’ll call it GHS), students consistently get into the Ivies/MIT/Stanford. GHS ranks and weights and also their requirement for a 4.0 GPA is only 89.5. I think it would behoove me to me transfer. I am a junior, and would spend my senior year there. Thoughts?