<p>I always wanted to ask can a student that is not in IB be class valedictorian by only taking AP classes or do you have to be in IB to be class valedictorian?</p>
<p>No one here on CC knows your school. YOU have to personally figure out if “you have to be in IB to be class valedictorian” is true. Talk to your counselor or try to look at past valedictorians at your school to see if they all took IB. Asking on CC about a specific question about your school is only going to get speculation.</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor. Seriously. A ton of schools nowadays have policies where anyone with a weighted GPA over 4.0 is automatically considered valedictorian, and GPA calculations among those who don’t can vary. The thing about IB is that not all classes you take can be weighted: you can only get into weighted courses junior and senior years (unless you just do AP in tangent with IB like my school), which really drives overall GPAs down in most cases. Even if students do AP and IB together, they’ll probably peak around 15-18 AP/IB courses throughout high school, so it’s definitely possible to take more AP courses than that and end up as a valedictorian. The problem with taking that many AP courses is you’ll end up doing a lot of stuff you’re trying to avoid in IB, but you can definitely do it assuming your school offer enough AP courses. Again, ask your guidance counselor about how weighting works and how many APs your school offers.</p>