<p>I used to. But now its almost certain that ill be student body president senior year, which means I get a graduation speech, so idc anymore. It's definitely in the realm of possibilities but I'm shooting for #3. Our current president is also Val, and people know him as the Val and not the pres, and apparently social recognition is more valued by me than intelligence so I wanna be #3.</p>
<p>What about you? What are your reasons for wanting or not wanting to be Val.</p>
<p>Not particularly. I mean, I got a B in gym right away freshman year so it was clear from the beginning that valedictorian wasn’t happening. (School doesn’t weight GPA.)</p>
<p>I wanted to first semester. Didn’t realize how lazy I would get by the second. Lost my chances.</p>
<p>No. Too much stress. I have a chance, but nah.</p>
<p>Well we don’t have a Val or Sal, or class ranking at all, so it’s kind of a moot point…</p>
<p>I think it would be fun to give a speech, though. But the choosing of who gets to give a speech is pretty much a popularity contest - I think they vote on it.</p>
<p>I wanted to and still do, but I fell in love with Journalism this year, so my chances are basically shot, as I go to a school where valedictorians typically don’t take unweighted elective courses yearlong, if at all.</p>
<p>No regrets, though. I still might be able to sneak in as sal, and I truly do love my program.</p>
<p>I want to be valedictorian or at least salutatorian. But I didn’t really apply myself freshman and most of sophomore year, and was getting A-'s while a couple of kids were grinding and getting A’s and A+'s. I dominated this year in a heavy AP course load (our school weights), and I’ll find out soon how much ground I made up. I think I went to 2nd. And although the person in 1st and I have similar senior schedules, she got harder teachers than I did. So I still have some hope.</p>
<p>I knew it was pointless as soon as I got my first A-.
Valedictorian at my school generally has a 4.0 and takes easy classes.</p>
<p>I only took two honors freshman year, so right away I knew I wasn’t going to be valedictorian. Even with my courseload this year it probably wouldn’t be enough because I’m taking non-honors English.</p>
<p>YES. Tryna close it out this last quarter. #bringtheringhome</p>
<p>I make my valedictory speech tomorrow 
I cared a lot junior year. Then I didn’t care senior year, and now I care again, haha. It feels good to make the people you love and yourself proud.</p>
<p>No way, my class is way too big to even seriously try to be valedictorian.</p>
<p>I was valedictorian. I took hard classes and worked my tail off.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, at my 30th high school reunion (gulp), several of my classmates wanted to have their photo taken with me just because I was #1! It was surreal, because I certainly wasn’t in the popular crowd in HS. One guy, who used to torment me, came up to tell me how much he had respected me. He said he made honor roll only one time, and couldn’t believe he was receiving the award up on stage with MaineLonghorn. So you never know what people are thinking of you. I sure wish I had had a clue in HS, because those were hard years for me. College was fantastic, on the other hand!</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank, but the way the GPA is reported, I’d be tied for Sal with about 5 other people.</p>
<p>Well… I have 5 days left of school and am in the lead so far. </p>
<p>I don’t know how close #2 is, but I’ve never really cared. Gonna be a tough last week (I had a month where I averaged 3-3.5 hours a sleep a school night, so I don’t know why it’s so hard now), but it’ll be worth it. More so for the sake of trying my hardest and generating momentum for college, as well as honoring God and a few other reasons.</p>
<p>I didn’t know class placement nor did I care until the second half of Junior year. I probably fancied the notion back in 9th grade because my dad told stories of when he was val and every son wants to be like their dad haha : )! Still, it’s not entirely impressive in a class of 32 students and I wouldn’t stand a chance at a larger school, but it is what it is and I’m thankful.</p>
<p>Yeah. I’ve never seen a Val/Sal not go to a “top” college and they always announce where they’re going and what they plan to do…
CSU Sacramento!</p>
<p>Anyways, I could’ve gotten Sal, had I not had 11 B’s in English as calculated and having more AP classes than everyone in the C/O 2013. I did make it to top 15, but only top 10 counts.</p>
<p>But to get up there? Normally you have to cheat. Cheat the system. Get out of PE, abuse the college course GPA boost before it was taken away (while the rest of the C/O 2013 isn’t even eligible to do CC courses due to age restrictions etc). Take honors theater and/or the AP art studios multiple times. And overload the non-graded courses.</p>
<p>~Rage. Could crush/have crushed Sal in Gov’t, Econ, Calc, Physics, Bio, Chem, Stats(Sal didn’t even take), Art History (Sal didn’t even take), Enviro Sci (Sal didn’t even take), and Spanish. Just bricking English, ungraded abuse, theater abuse, and managing to get grades bumped up.</p>
<p>When I first came in as a Freshman I was set on being Valedictorian. As a sophomore I learned that if you participate in our school’s dual enrollment program for more than one year then you cannot be Val or Sal. I was going to Junior and Senior year because my school only has 2 AP courses.</p>
<p>Btw it is kind of funny. This year our Valedictorian is not graduating with Honors. It’s because he skipped a class via self-studying the AP. Our school requires you to take the class to graduate with honors so he is ****ed.</p>
<p>I’ve wanted to be val. since my freshman year, but was never really serious about it until I found out I actually had a chance junior year. Always took hard classes, but then I kicked it up a notch (more like several notches lol).</p>
<p>At my school class rank (and grades in general, really) are more about how well you can follow instructions/complete mind-numbing assignments than about intelligence. The top few people in each class are usually also the most boring, and the graduation speeches reflect that.</p>