<p>The val for mine is the person with the highest weighted GPA, so the more A.P the better
Too bad, my class val is a total jerk and is hated by everyone =]</p>
<p>Highest GPA for us! Weighted GPA of course.</p>
<p>Only three honors/AP classes are counted for us as weighted. So a lot of people who want to be valedictorian in our school will just take three each year so they can get all wonderful grades and get a high GPA. It’s really stupid.</p>
<p>OMG Salve!, that’s how it works at my school too. It seems like there’s a good amount of kids that try to game the system by never taking harder weighted classes like Honors/AP classes and instead only take the easier ones in like social studies. At least at my school they changed this so that in the younger classes, there is no limit to how many classes are weighted.</p>
<p>to bad being a high school valedictorian means jack squat. There is no advantage to be gained by being one. In fact since valedictorians have to give a speech, it wuld be best to purposely get one non A so u dont have to do as much work for something as useless as it.
Eg rank 1 vs rank 3 makes no diff to a college, so whats the advantage to the person. Ur friend got lucky now that he does not have to do extra work.</p>
<p>my school just does highest weighted gpa. That seems like the most logical way.</p>
<p>Just one valedictorian in our school and one salutatorian. The #3 student also does a speech, I assume they base it on GPA and probably weigh in the courses a person is taking. Either way only one person makes it to be valedictorian and the difference between #1 and #2 is decimal places and very minor.</p>
<p>My school bases it on the highest weighted GPA (which accounts for honors and AP classes so that students get on stage with 10 PE credits.) There has been a little bit of controversy this year because my school just started weighting GPAs last year and did not bother going back to weight the classes that the students had already taken, so students who transferred to the school in their senior year could have an advantage. Fortunately, this year, the valedictorian of my class was the student who is going to Oxford instead of the student who transferred in and is going to the local community college.</p>
<p>We don’t have vals and sals we have “Gold Cord” and “Silver Cord”. You get gold cords at graduation if your gpa is 3.9+ and silver for 3.75-3.9</p>
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<p>^ Pretty much exactly how my school works.</p>
<p>OP, why didn’t you tell someone about the girl ranked 11th? God knows Collegeboard would’ve had a field day about it … I mean nobody wants to be a snitch or whatever, but that’s seriously just too much.</p>
<p>My S was one of 18 vals this year at his school. They don’t weight GPA, so everyone with a 4.0 is considered a val. Each one gives a 90 second speech, and they sit on the stage for graduation, not down on the floor with all the other grads. I thought that would sound extreme on this thread, until I read about 26 vals from socialscott!</p>
<p>A school in my area takes everybody with a 4.0 UW as vals. This year there were 7 vals, which doesn’t sound too awful until you consider that there were 73 students in the class. So the 2 sals were outside of the top 10% ha ha</p>
<p>The kid with the highest weighted GPA.</p>
<p>It’s going to be a scary graduation though…the prospective val is a nerdy and awkward brain machine with the puniest voice a girl could ever hope not to have. Oh gawsh…</p>
<p>whitesox24, you guys got jipped… too bad your school seems too stupid to think of that before…</p>
<p>I know Salve, my school’s grading system sucks.</p>
<p>Valedictorian is the number one student in the class in my school and as of right now, the one for my class is one of the better ones. She’s naturally smart and works hard for that grade.</p>
<p>at my school, the valedictorian is usually the person who has the highest GPA. I don’t know if the valedictorian has to give a speech or not. I guess it is his or her choice.</p>
<p>Englishsprout - wow, the other valedictorians are really cheaters. I can’t believe they’re going to receive the highest honor. They remind of the smart kids i knew at my school who cheated. It just shows how corrupted many students are. However, the person rank #1, he seems like a good person since u didn’t write how corrupted he is. Rank #11, i hope that she will be punished for her immorality.</p>
<p>The “honor” of valedictorian or salutatorian is typically a joke. It doesn’t really mean that much.</p>
<p>^ “Typically?” It doesn’t necessarily mean that the kid’s the smartest in the class, but it can be a good indicator that the kid has a helluva work ethic (unless he cheated, took the easiest classes, etc.)</p>
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<p>A school about 20 min from my house had 39 valedictorians for the class of 09.</p>
<p>At my school it’s the hightest GPA and the principal says that he weighs in EC’s and course rigor but not really. They look at Highest GPA regardless of the weight. From what I know, in my class there’s only two kids taking 6+ weighted classes, one of them is me, but I’ve loaded up on science. Lots of kids stress over being a valec. but it’s not that big of a deal, since it’s not going to be on your college app. right? There’s a weird requirement though, you have to have taken at least 2 AP classes or something. Rules fluctuate year to year however.</p>
<p>jamesford, and what you mentioned is exactly what the kids at my school do… so for me it is almost a joke, but they do still need to work hard.</p>
<h1>11 in op sounds awesome. I would love to meet him or her.</h1>