<p>The valedictorians at my high school are notorious in the sense that they always end up at a subpar school to which everyone believes they will attend. This is simply because they are study machines that did not do much during high school, albeit one did get into Stanford a couple of years ago</p>
<p>Our valedictorian and salutatorian were rejected from HYPS, whereas I got into Yale and Stanford. Class rank isn’t everything, I suppose.</p>
<p>The saludictorian of my school went to devry and alot of other students went to brown and stanford</p>
<p>for what it’s worth, I got in over our Sal, Val only applied to one Ivyesque school(Stanford) and was rejected, I’m in the top ten% of around 300, not sure where since our school only does deciles</p>
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<p>dang that is inadvisable</p>
<p>what do you mean? He wasn’t really interested in an Ivy school, he liked Stanford but he’s probably going to a pretty good school that isn’t as well known, his choice…</p>
<p>I am currently the Sal and both the Val and I got in. He is brilliant. I’m just ordinary so I’m shocked at my acceptance but not at his. haha.</p>
<p>I was nominated for Valedictorian along with four other people. The five of us are pretty much at the top of our class. One of the other nominees apparently had the highest average in grade 11 (she’s crazy smart). She applied to I think all of the Ivy Leagues plus a few others but as far as I know she only got accepted to Dartmouth. I only applied to Yale and I was accepted. I’m sure the other three nominees are going to well-respected Canadian universities next year.</p>
<p>our valedictorian had a super high gpa for our school’s standards, but his SAT scores were abysmal (1900’s). So no surprise when he got rejected.</p>
<p>i mean abysmal for ivy league standards* correction.</p>
<p>Of our current srs…none got in…many in top 10% with terrific stats.</p>
<p>Last year’s (2009) Val got rejected from HYPS, but got into Penn & Dartmouth and is attending Dartmouth. The Sal got into Yale EA, and also got into H & P, and waitlisted at MIT.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian had a 4.29, and the second person had a 4.28. They both got accepted to Yale.</p>
<p>Hearing these stats makes me feel bad, y’all. What if your school doesn’t do ranks?</p>
<p>Then you are in the same boat as me!</p>
<p>I mean, I know I’m in the top 20 percent but I have a class of 84ish…but we don’t find out who val and sal are until commencement, basically.</p>
<p>Our val is voted on by teachers and we dont even have a sal, so youre all good aha</p>
<p>Voted on by the teachers? How exactly does that work? And what kind of measures does the administration take to keep it from simply becoming an exercise in favoritism?</p>
<p>No i havent</p>
<p>Well, it is an exercise in favouritism… but only among qualified applicants.</p>
<p>The teachers take the top 10 or 20 highest performing students then vote on which should give the valedictory adress</p>
<p>Wait, so the valedictorian is just the person who gives the commencement address? Not like the <em>model</em> student or anything? Ahhh.</p>