My son is in the candidate stage at this time. He attended a rural public school and has had to take academically challenging courses by participating in dual enrollment and advanced placement courses. His high school did not calculate his GPA based on a 5.0 scale for these courses. Additionally, he took a college level chemistry course during the spring and this class moved to online (including the lab) due to covid and he received an A- which brought his GPA down to a 3.98 and his class rank down to a 7 out of 86. Do you have any recommendations as to how to explain this to the admissions office so that this scenario can be taken into consideration? Thank you