<p>ooooook, so ive posted about something similar to this before just not so specific.</p>
<p>so, I am very much considering transferring from my academically rigorous public high school to a less competitive school in California. My school did not offer many sophomore honors classes and no ap classes, so I didn't take any, except for an honors that I took online. </p>
<p>The other school has offered many honors courses, so grade inflation is extremely prevalent at that school. My GPA is 4.04. and I am in the top 10% at my school, but if I transfer to this new school, I may not be in the top 10% because there is so much grade inflation there, and there are more honors classes offered in the lower grades. </p>
<p>Hopefully I'm making sense, please ask if you would like any clarification because this is extremely important in my decision making.</p>
<p>ps. I emailed the counselor at this new school, and he said my gpa would be factored into their school's computer and that is how I would be ranked. My friend has a 4.3 or something there and she is number 22 in the grade. </p>
<p>getting a 4.3 at my school is basically for the top 7 or so. </p>
<p>by the way, i have just joined and have been extremely impressed by how helpful everyone is..</p>
<p>Unfortunately your GPA will just put you wherever it puts you within this new school. And even if your GPA was better, some schools have rules about how high transfers can be ranked.</p>
<p>The good news is that you've got two years to raise your GPA at this new school.</p>
<p>this happened to me sparkle (but sort of in reverse)</p>
<p>my family moved right before my senior year and my new school unweighted my GPA for all classes that they did not offer (my old school offered honors science classes, so I had been took honors Bio, honors Chem, and honors Physics-also known as AP Physics B). Therefore, my GPA dropped significantly, and with it my class rank dropped. Fortunately, my new school was not nearly as competitive so I ended graduating with a much higher GPA, but it was still lower than many other students who had not had nearly as rigorous a schedule as mine. </p>
<p>In order to rectify the problem, I had my old counselor write me a letter of recommendation for collleges. Basically her letter explained what my GPA and class rank would have been at my old school and how I was at the top of my class there. Therefore, colleges knew that my class rank had dropped due to the move.</p>
<p>I suggest you do the same. Just have your old counselor explain that you were in the top of your class at your old school and that because tou exhausted all of their resources, you had to transefer to another school.</p>