How do you become valedictorian?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>At my school, it’s simple. Whoever has the highest GPA is valedictorian. We’re ranked out of 100, so it’s a lot less likely multiple people will have the same GPA. Only our IB/AP classes are weighted, and you can only take them junior and senior year. </p>

<p>It works out that a 93 weighs to a 100 (you can’t go over 100). So really, people in full IB are the only ones who have a chance at val/sal. I’m currently 1, and 2 and 3 are also full IB. This likely won’t change at all because, since we get weighted up the same, whoever was highest before will stay highest. It’s all staying pretty proportional.</p>

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<p>Is that a joke ^ ? </p>

<p>It’s certainly something to put on a college application…</p>

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<p>It goes by weighted GPA at my school, which is out of 6 points. 6 for an A in an AP/Honors, 5 in an A for an Academic level course, and a 4 for an A in any lower level course. Letter grades scale down from there.
Most, if not all, valedictorians at my school have a 6.00. That, in my opinion, is insane.</p>

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<p>Be the biggest brown nose who kisses the most amount of administrative a** and have the highest GPA. Its about how much you care about your school and how high your scores are. That’s at least how it works in my district.</p>

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<p>At my school they give you a list of the top people in school then have students vote for them.</p>

<p>Even students that have never taken AP classes have been able to become valedictorian in my school.</p>

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<p>I am my school’s valedictorian–at least, they announced that I was at awards night–but the school year’s not even over!</p>

<p>Which is slight “loophole” that hasn’t been mentioned yet. Most schools award valedictorian after 7 or 7.5 semesters.</p>

<p>Theoretically, you only need to have the highest GPA up until that point. After that, you could bomb all of your finals and finish with a 3.0 but they won’t revoke it once they announce it.</p>

<p>I don’t plan on risking it, but I’ll take the insurance. :)</p>

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<p>At ours, it’s based on a weighted 100-point-scale GPA. It is announced in late April I believe.</p>

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<p>I decided to become valedictorian when I was in 9th grade and listened to more than one sermon about how women should stay home with the kids. I decided I would show them differently, lol. So I worked my tail off and did it.</p>

<p>I didn’t think much of it after high school. At my 30th reunion, though, people who used to tease me and/or ignore me DID remember and wanted their photo taken with me. It was so bizarre.</p>

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<p>Our school does it by weighted gpa, so it’s always the legitametly smart kids who deserve it, not those who take all easy classes.</p>