<p>I’m a freshman taking four weighted classes (AP Stats, AP Comp Sci, AP Human Geo in a semester online, and IB Latin 4), and I really want to be valedictorian. My class is pretty competitive compared to other classes, since having a solid 4.0 probably would not even cut the top 10 or 15 by the end of the year. This year and sophomore year, as long as I maintain straight A’s, I’ll be top in my class, but staying with orchestra is probably gonna bring me below other competitive students by senior year.</p>
<p>@haycon I agree with you fully there. People often tell me that if I was put with the Other top 10 people in a room, I’d end up killing them. I really don’t like most of them.</p>
<p>^dayum limsanity, your school is most definitely more competitive than mine lol.
People at my school are pretty casual about class ranks, but hey it would be nice being val or sal. That said, as long as I’m in the top ten I’ll be satisfied. I’m not planning my entire schedule to be val, and I have some electives that might throw me out, so it’ll be a nice surprise if it happens. if it gets competitive, though, with cheating/skipping gym/whatever people do elsewhere…I’m booking it outta here.</p>
<p>I hate public speaking, so I’m right where I want to be.</p>
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<p>I have never wanted to be val or sal. It was never a goal of mine, just A’s. I’m happy in the top 4% and our grades our so close in the top 5% of students that literally the average difference between each set of apprx. 10 people is 0.1 of a decimal point in GPA.</p>
<p>Am I the only one whose hogh school has multiple valedictorians? I go to a pretty big public school (2,800+ students lol), so each class has approximately 700 students. And there are multiple kids in every class who are at the top of the top, taking every single AP offered at my school (which is almost every AP possible, only ones we dont have are the irrelevant weird ones like Chinese…). The thing is that in order to do this you have to get special permission to take tons of APs starting freshman year, because normally freshman arent allowed to take APs (I think now freshman can take AP Himan Geography which is a new AP). </p>
<p>But yeah one of the top valedictorians got straightup rejected from Stanford even though he had amazing ECs (being selected to fly to New York over the summer to participate in a research program alongside researchers with doctorates in their fields). Shows how being valedictorian doesnt matter.</p>
<p>My school stopped ranking (except for Valedictorians) because to many students were being affected by having a poor class rank…</p>
<p>“Shows how being valedictorian doesnt matter.”</p>
<p>Basically everyone gets rejected from Stanford because it’s Stanford. You could say that grades and extracurriculars don’t matter just because he got rejected, but that doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>Lol I’d love to be the valedictorian. Not going to happen though. I realized that if I wanted to try for val I would have to quit some of my ECs and work my butt off, and I decided that it wasn’t worth it. My school doesn’t actually weight (I think #1 has a 97.X or 98.X?), and near the top, it’s really close (probably 15 people have GPAs in the 95-96 range). It’s interesting though, because although you could cheat the system by taking super easy classes since GPA isn’t weighted, all of the people in the top 10 are taking really rigorous courseloads.</p>
<p>I would love to be valedictorian. My freshman year will be over in 3 days. I doubt I will get to be valedictorian though. First semester, I got 2 B’s in geometry. So unless some people start slacking off, I’m screwed.</p>
<p>I would love valedictorian for the honor, but unfortunately my school uses percentile…which is further worsened as they use UW GPA, meaning the random slackers can become valedictorian while the hard-workers with several AP’s get a lower class rank due to the rigor of their respective classes.</p>
<p>I’m one of 3 4.0s in my class. One girl hasn’t had as difficult a schedule as the other guy and I.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t formally announce a val or sal though, but as senior class president, I do get to give the speech tomorrow at graduation. Honestly, if one of you were in my class and wanted to give it in my place I would totally let you. I’m not especially excited to give it, but it’s a nice opportunity I guess.</p>
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<p>School doesn’t have one, but if it did I would just to make it official (I clearly have the highest average), but if there was a grad speech involved I wouldn’t do it because I hate my school and would have a very difficult time trying to bs a few minutes about how great it is.</p>
<p>Not bothered about it. The people at our school generally find sneeky ways to boost their GPA like taking required electives over the summer, so that they don’t count towards their GPA. Also, there are some stupid easy Pre-AP + AP classes at our school that pretty much guarantee you a 100 if you do the work.</p>
<p>Oh, and my class has ~1500 in it, so there are quite a few people to compete with. Right now, I’m around a solid 30. Not bad, but not amazing either. Then again, I’m only taking 3 AP classes this year, so I can’t expect to be up their with the kids taking 5/6 a year.</p>