Again, people obviously will not play the ranking game at such high schools. They will only do it at high schools that students are still ranked based on weighted gpa.
It may matter when you are not one of the GPA = 4.0uw. If a college is going to auto-admit up to certain rank, how can it find out that an applicant’s 9.99% ranking is in fact 15% based on its recalculation, without access to detailed transcript of all students, including those who did not apply to the college, from the high school?
It also may matter at a possibly less selective college where weighted gpa, high school reported rank and/or valedictorian title are considered.
And I am talking about actual HS with ranking system that allows the ranking game. Existence of your example does not negate existence of my example because there are many high schools with different systems in the U.S.
And you know that taking the health class at the community college is less rewarding than taking the high schools’ own health class because?