Does Stanford care?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>So I just got a phone call literally 10 minutes ago, from my HS Principal congratulating me, for my outstanding GPA, and if I can keep up my 4.0 I will graduate with a summa cum laude diploma. There are 10 other kids out of 867 receiving one as well.</p>

<p>My question is does Stanford care if I have a summa cum laude diploma over a normal HS diploma?</p>

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<p>by the time you receive the summa cum laude diploma (from graduating out of hs), you would either have been accepted/deferred/rejected from all of the colleges you applied to. so i would state no :o (even though, congrats!)</p>

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<p>Well, there is this program we have here, at my HS if I have all 24 credits I can graduate early. I have 23 so far.</p>

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<p>Presumably Stanford already knows that you are one of the top 10 students in your graduating class because your guidance counselor provided a letter of recommendation with your class rank and an assessment of the relative academic rigor of your transcript. So the official recognition really isn’t new information.</p>

<p>If you have other things to report - new honors and awards from other sources - then it wouldn’t hurt to throw this in. It just doesn’t warrant it’s own letter.</p>

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<p>So even though you’re about 27th in your class (according to your chance thread), you are one out of 11 kids to graduate with honors? My school didn’t even work like like that…and I live in the most corrupt city in the United States!</p>

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<p>27 outta 867</p>

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<p>Exactly, top 3%. So wouldn’t it follow that if only 11 were achieving an award for academic excellence, it would be the top 11 in the class? I mean, what other criteria can they judge by?</p>

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<p>It is based on weighted GPA, our ranks are determined by unweighted GPA. The Top 11 there is one kid getting it, and the rest have taken regular classes and have a 4.0 its not that hard.</p>

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<p>No
It does not matter
They can fill class 5 x over with “first in class” per Dean</p>

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<p>Since they’ll see your class rank on the transcript, it seems like they’ll know anyway, although it won’t be under ‘awards’.</p>