what if my HS does not rank students??

Anonagron
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:38:17 +0000

We went round and round with our guidance office last year with this issue. The transcript the school submitted for our cadet listed only his “percentage grouping”. I was very frustrated about that… UNTIL we spoke with an admissions rep from USMA. He told us USMA admissions will look at their ACT/SAT scores and come up with a class rank in place of it. When I told our guidance counselor that, she looked me square in the eye and said, “They can’t do that! They have no idea what their grades are compared to others in the school.” I thought, “lady they are the U.S. military… they can do whatever they darn well please!!!”

Now, in reality, this may have actually been a positive thing in our son’s case. Our cadet’s high school class was very competitive with many high achievers. Since the school does not add weight to the grades of higher level coursework, several who took the regular levels of courses would have outranked our cadet. In his case, that would not have been a true representation of his abilities compared to the classmates.

Best of luck as you go through this process!