<p>At my high school, there is a nice dinner in May for the top 25 seniors, based on their weighted GPA after four years. Students get to invite a teacher to speak about them; their pictures are put in our main display case...never mind that nobody looks at them. :)</p>
<p>But does your high school do anything to honor the "top" academic students, as seniors? Other than an award's night, I guess.</p>
<p>Not that I’m aware of… (See the thread I started a couple of hours ago about how academic achievements are under-appreciated)</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what made me think of it. But other than this Top 25 dinner, academics do seem to be under-appreciated at my school, at least in relation to the attention sports get.</p>
<p>Nope, because we’re all so bunched up together GPA-wise that we’d probably have to have at least 50 people attending to be fair.</p>
<p>The top 10 seniors get a story in the local newspaper about their interests and activities and where they’re going to college in the fall. I like the dinner thing, though (but that’s mostly because I’m not in the top 10… I’m in the top 25.) Meh.</p>
<p>OH!!! Top seniors (i.e. 4.0 UWGPAs) get a paragraph about their accomplishments in the paper. That’s about 15 people at my school (GRADE INFLATION!)</p>
<p>My school had two National Merit Semifinalists, me and this other kid, and they had our names on the plastic marquee sign outside the school for like two months. </p>
<p>I don’t think they do very much to recognize people with high GPAs, but most of us aren’t that great and don’t need to be recognized anyway. There’s so much grade inflation that it doesn’t mean anything. </p>
<p>I also think the “real world” does more to honor people who are good at school overall than it does to honor people who are good at other stuff (someone who can’t do anything other than sports could become a professional athlete and make more than an engineer or whatever, but it’s a lot less likely). Stupid high school certificates aren’t very important.</p>
<p>Special denotation by your name during graduation. </p>
<p>A neighboring school inscribed NMSF and 4.0 names into a wall permanently. Just a little jealous…</p>
<p>Haha nooooo
Oh wait, they let people with 3.5 gpas and higher get out of class for lunch 3 minutes early on Fridays. So pretty much nothing.</p>
<p>Every end of the semester, people with GPAs 3.5 or higher get let out of our last class 40 minutes early for a party thing. I think a third of the school might have been there. But other than that, no. My school’s super big on sports.</p>
<p>My kids’ school (public) is very academically oriented, so the students who get in the Cum Laude society are invited to a really nice dinner for families and students. It’s a big school, so there are probably 40 or so students a year in it.</p>
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<p>My nephew was in my high school building recently, and said he saw my name on a plaque of NMSFs. I was pleasantly surprised, because when I was in HS, over 30 years ago, football was everything. Academic achievements didn’t count for much.</p>
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This is our school. Except replace the past tense for present.</p>
<p>Yes, my school is into sports a lot too. Mostly football. Even though the football team is horrible…I think. I’ve never been to a game.
But it’s in a good neighborhood so automatically there are many good academic students.
But it’s not because of the school.</p>
<p>I wish our school was decent in football. We just have grade deflation and suicides.</p>
<p>Agree with heather here. A school might focus on sports a lot, but so what? All of the kids that are doing well enough in school to be recognized will be rewarded later through college/job prospects. I personally don’t like the idea of kids working hard in school just for the recognition, which is surprisingly common. The sports are of bigger focus to most schools probably because people would rather watch a football game than watch a kid take a test.</p>
<p>At my school, graduates with GPA’s over 95/100 sit on stage at graduation while everyone else sits on the floor. The GPA’s aren’t weighted though, so the group of kids is always really strange- some headed to HYP, others who are headed to mediocre state schools because they didn’t take any honors/AP’s/anything challenging.</p>
<p>Each year at my school’s award ceremony, the top ten students from each grade receive a wooden plaque. I think it’s nice to get recognition, but my school also only has about 600 students, so it’s not nearly has difficult as other schools.</p>
<p>Hahahaha good things for smart kids. That’s funny.</p>
<p>Have you noticed how mentoring smart kids isn’t regarded as highly as tutoring “non-smart” kids?</p>
<p>Smart kids don’t get the attention they deserve, which leads to less people being inspired to “become” smart. </p>