<p>I've been involved in a dual enrollment program at the University of Minnesota for my junior and senior years of high school, and I want some other opinions about my situation. I had roughly a 4.2 or so weighted (3.9 UW) GPA after my first two years in high school and was 12th in my class of ~400. At the U of MN, I've gotten a 3.9 for my first two semesters, and a 4.0 this spring. But my problem is that these grades aren't weighted by my high school, and class rank is based on weighted GPA. I suspect that my rank is now somewhere around 20, even though I've been getting better grades in harder classes. </p>
<p>Will colleges know that my grades aren't weighted? </p>
<p>Will they recognize the difficulty of my coursework?</p>
<p>My first choice is Yale (applying SCEA) if that helps.</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor may be able to put that in context for them. If not, in your situation I’d just send the admissions office a letter myself explaining it. I don’t think it will hurt you at all. Colleges generally strip away all weighting anyway and re-weight according to their own formula. Class rank is just something that puts grades in a context, but since your have quite a few grades from outside the school, I would think it wouldn’t be a reliable factor in considering your application and if it’s not useful they probably won’t consider it. My son didn’t do traditional high school. He took some classes at the high school, some at the local public univ., did some independent study. He had no rank, or else his rank was #1 out of a class of 1. ;)</p>
<p>It didn’t hurt him. It just wasn’t a factor in the larger picture because it had no relevance. I would imagine your situation would be the same. Ask you guidance counselor if he/she would include that in their evaluation. If not, do it yourself.</p>