<p>Whoa whoa whoa! I had NO idea Valedictorians only meant “class toppers” everywhere. In my country, the class valedictorian is a student elected by the teachers and the students and is the best "all-rounded’’ person. I got chosen not because i am the BEST anywhere, rather because I am good in a lot of areas.
I should have specified the context. :)</p>
<p>Thank You mifune! I followed your directions and went the MySat page. It reads “scores sent…” but my harvard and uchicago accounts still don’t show that they’ve received the score. Same with Dartmouth, stanford, et all. Will it take more time for the colleges to be aware that I have sent in the scores?
Thanks a million for your help!</p>
<p>Btw, Harvard was pretty prompt in sending the access code for me. Is it usually so quick with everybody?</p>
<p>^ I submitted my app in mid-September and received my access code a month later.</p>
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<p>If the precise wording on the My Send Score History portion of your College Board account is “We sent the following score on…,” then that is the indication that they were received. Since the transfer is electronic, the College Board’s sending is synonymous with the fact that they were obtained by the university and available through the database. </p>
<p>The information from your personal accounts (those distributed by some universities as an accessible informational and organizational tool for prospective students) most likely reflects the fact that matching your scores with your application is not an automatic process since there is no computerized means of doing so. That is where you are suspecting the delay if I am understanding correctly. That should not be a source of concern, though.</p>
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<p>Yup. At my school val is the student who writes the best essay, as chosen by the administration. Val’s essay is serious; sal is also chosen this way but with a funny essay. There’s a separate award for top-GPA. Other than that we don’t rank.</p>
<p>^Is the sal speech officially chosen that way, or is that just how it turns out?</p>
<p>just finished my application. good luck everyone!</p>
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<p>Indeed, thanks for the clarification. 
My school system - and indeed, most of the school systems I am acquainted with - operated from the more traditional definition.</p>
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<p>No, it’s officially chosen that way. I think people submit speeches to the administration and they pick the best one to be the val speech and the funniest to be sal. So val is sort of heart-felt, earnest, wahh wahh I’ll miss all the good times etc., and then the sal speech is humorous. It sort of makes sense; highest GPA is sometimes some mousy kid who wouldn’t write a great speech/is poor at public speaking.</p>
<p>At my school, the Valedictorian is rarely the smartest kid. The smart ones (I like to consider myself in this group) choose such a difficult course load that they invariably end up dropping a B here and/or there. A couple people slip through with the bare requirements for graduation and take all honors classes, which nets them a higher GPA at the end. Our school weighs H=4.4, G=4.44, AP=4.48, so lots of AP’s doesn’t ever really make up for a B or two. Sad but true. </p>
<p>And that is why I’m banking on my school’s prestige, my essays, AP/SAT/ACT scores, recommendations, EC’s, awards and finishing all the math/science courses and having a generally hard schedule to get me into college.</p>
<p>Here in Canada the Val is usually the most popular, well liked kid (since we use a voting system…)</p>
<p>^ us too…</p>
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<p>Um, he’s also from Canada.</p>
<p>^ ya i know. sorry i just meant my school too.</p>
<p>I just added H to my list of schools (sibling legacy :D)! Did any of you apply EA anywhere?</p>
<p>Harvard actually doesn’t count sibling legacy, but regardless, I think you have a good shot. :)</p>
<p>PrincetonDreams, I also applied to Stanford REA like you (though you probably already know this ;)).</p>
<p>I did Yale SCEA. Unsurprisingly, I think quite a few people here applied to either Yale or Stanford. April seems so, so, so far off. Wish someone invented a super fast application processing machine. <em>grumbles</em></p>
<p>Yale SCEA.</p>