<p>What is the percentage of people at Penn who were valedictorians in their high school?
Do you know any of them, and what is/was their profile?</p>
<p>Hunh? What does Val have anything to do with it? By coincidence they happen to attend a HS where another kid was better or worse – and analyzing the number at Penn is supposed to tell you something? Penn students are excellent. That’s all that matters. Val or Sal or 15th in class is irrelevant.</p>
<p>Just in my daughter’s circles her friends were either #1 or #2 in their high schools. All Penn kids are outstanding and VERY competitive students and is why they are there. </p>
<p>Hmmm… I never knew the single rank or val/sal status of ANYONE in my circle of friends or beyond in my four years at my Ivy alma mater. It wasn’t a very competitive atmosphere either.</p>
<p>Caveat: maybe I just didn’ t notice b/c I was ranked 10th or 11th or something like that at my HS. It didn’t matter to me there, either.</p>
<p>^ Only about 30% of Penn students went to high schools that determined class rank (the same is probably true these days at other top colleges, including your alma mater):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202012-13.pdf”>http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202012-13.pdf</a> (see C10 on page 12)</p>
<p>So most Penn students don’t even have a high school class rank to share or discuss.</p>