Ok, so basically I attend a very highly ranked magnet school in my state (ranked #2). The school is very selective and
is made up of students from 22 towns of the same county. I now think that I want to transfer back to my home district, yet I’m still not sure what do. If I go back to my home district, I cannot go back to my magnet school (1-way transfer). Let me highlight some important differences between the two schools:
School A: Highly Selective Top Ranked Magnet school in state with an emphasis on Medicine (we take some courses from a local university).
School B: Good competitive public school
GPA: School A has unweighted out of 100 (which I currently have a 93/100) No rank.
School A Grades: All courses are automatically Honors.
MP1 MP2 MIDTERM MP3
94 90 95 88
98 96 92 96
97 95 84 92
91 80 87 83 *(RIP)
88 96 93 92
95 94 95
93 88 95 94
92 94 90 93
School B only reports weighted GPA. (An A (95-100) is weighted 4 for regular courses and 5 for Honors/AP, an A- (90-94) is 3.5 and 4.5 respectively, and so on). School B does not rank but if I go back I will be in 4 Honors (the maximum), have a GPA of around a 4.4-4.5, and will become valedictorian (1/175), due to how they recalculate my GPA.
However, I have 2 B’s from Middle School (I took high school math), which kinda affects my honors math placement, but since I go to school A, it doesn’t since all courses at school A are honors, and if I go back, they will put me in all honors as long as I have an 85 at the end of the year in each class. (I barely have an 85 in English, but they said that I will be in honors).
School A has quite a few AP’s, but I can only take maximum 2-3 during Junior year, and maximum 6 during senior year.
School B has 25 AP’s, and I could take 1 sophomore year (don’t really want to), and about 7 junior/senior year.
School A is 35 mins away and requires a bus ride every morning, while School B is 5 mins away by car.
Extracurriculars: In school A, I am the President/Founder of the Bio Olympiad Club, official speaker of a local TEDx event (TEDx Club), Team Captain of Relay for Life, HOSA member/competitor, Student Gov’t member, Model UN/Democrats of America Delegate/Member.
I am part of 3 clubs at School B since it is my home district, which I participate in after school. STEM League Member, Bridge-Building Club Team Engineer, Technology Student Association.
Outside of school (these won’t change): Volunteering, Competitive Piano.
The biggest reason why I want to transfer out is because of my low unweighted GPA (93/100). I know I can improve on this GPA later on, but this is something that I stress about A LOT, and if I go back, I’ll have like a 4.5 GPA and won’t have to worry as much (and be valedictorian!). I also hate like half of my teachers, even though I do ok in their classes. My English teacher just gives me bad grades for nothing (like she can’t even spell independent correctly, her grammar is off, etc.). I complained to the Education Board about this, and they won’t do anything about it. For example, I was sick one day in class, so I missed a test that we had. After the test, she assigned us homework that I didn’t know we had. I told her I’d make up the test next class, and asked her if there was anything else I needed to know, she said no. Then next class she gave me an “test” essay to write instead of taking a test (which is unfair since she gave everyone else who didn’t take the test that day a regular test) and a 0 on my homework, causing my grade at that point to go from a 91 to am 56 (I even did the homework during lunch that day, and she refused to accept it). When I complained, she gave me a choice to take a 0 on my in class writing assignment (another assignment that I had missed a week ago from being sick), or the homework. She never told me what grade was worth more, and so being me, I chose to get a 0 on the homework (even though I asked for partial credit). In the end, my grade ended up being a 83 average. However, if she counted the homework and gave me and extra day to do it since I never knew about it, I would of had a 91 average, and if I chose the in-class writing assignment to get a 0 on, my grade would have been an 90. Apparently, the homework was worth 9 times as much as the writing assignment, and she never told me. Then, she would just give me C’s (and D’s!) for my essays (for no reason!), and when I showed it to another English teacher, they said they would have gave me like an A-. She played favorites on the people in my class, as some people would just get 100’s on everything just for showing up to class (and they were actually pretty bad at English!).
As for my other teachers, my Spanish teacher used to give me bad grades for no reason and she was really unfair towards everyone, but when I complained, she resolved the issue with me and now I get good grades. (All my MP/Midterm averages have been above a 90.)
My fitness teacher doesn’t like me since I am not very good at fitness, and requires us to write 4 page essays, do extensive projects and presentations, and run miles on the treadmill after school and during lunch (which count as a grade!). He just gives me bad grades on participation for no reason, but I still have a 95 in his class.
All my other teachers love me (a lot apparently), and I like them back. They think that I am hardworking in class and care about my grade so I do well in their classes.
Another reason why I want to go back is because I miss my friends back at my home district, and I have made very minimal friends when coming to my school. Also, my school is very far away, so that’s another factor to consider.
Also, would going back/staying ruin my chances of attending an Ivy/Top 10 school? My parents say that I will, but I’m not sure.
I don’t know what to do, but I feel very depressed at my current school due to my crappy teachers/GPA (it’s not too bad, but not too good), and I don’t know how I’ll feel when I go back. My current school is very good, but I don’t know if I should risk such a good school for my sanity. Anyways, I have to make this decision now (Tuesday is the deadline!). Help! 