<p>How much does becoming the valedictorian matter for college? At my school, seniors vote for their valedictorian, so I don't see the point in that.</p>
<p>Uh are you sure seniors vote at your school? That really does not make any sense. A valedictorian is supposed to be the person in the grade with the highest gpa. Obviously everyone at a college cant be the valedictorian at their respective school so it helps but is hardly necessary or important as long as you have a decent rank. (assuming your school even ranks, mine does not)</p>
<p>edit: Oh I see you are from canada that could explain the difference.</p>
<p>"valedictorian" doesn't matter....rank matters...
usually they go hand in hand, but at some schools they don't.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter. Just get in high ranks.</p>
<p>What kind of school votes for valedictorian? And valedictorian isn't the greatest thing, not as good as rank. At my school, we had 6 valedictorians last year... 6!! It's like grade inflation... Oh wait, it really is. Straight As throughout all of highschool gets you in valedictorian. I dont think GPA or rank has to do with it...</p>
<p>at our school, some who takes all regular classes and gets a 4.0 throughout high school compared to someone else who earned a 4.0 taking a load of honors and ap courses both becomes valedictorians. the degree of difficulty for the courses you take here does not matter to earn that title.</p>
<p>Is it important if our graduating class only has 60 people and we don't rank (but we do list valedictorian/salutatorian)?</p>
<p>oasis:
it's not a huge downside if your school doesnt rank - they'll just look at your grades and test results.. it's just the same for people who's from a school that ranks..</p>
<p>I think valedictorian is important because it shows them that you are the best from your school (acadamics).
But i've never heard of a voted valedictorian.. that's kinda like class president isnt it?</p>
<p>At our school you have to be interviewed in front of a student/teacher pannel to be valedictorian. There is only one every year. It basically means you are smart, involved, and a decent speaker (as the valedictorian gets to give a speech at grad and sit up on the stage).</p>
<p>If you're 1st or 4th or 12th or even 20th it really doesn't matter. Take hard classes and do your best. Some people take classes based on their weight and relative ease but they're the ones hurting themselves in the long run. Don't worry about it!</p>
<p>By the time they decide on the valedictorian at my school, s/he will have gotten into and decided on a college already. I don't see how it would help, since you wouldn't be able to put it on a college app. We don't have weighted GPAs, so whether you take honors and APs doesn't count for anything. I don't think it matters much; you just get to make a speech at graduation. Of course, if you're valedictorian, you probably had a high rank and GPA in the first place; that will probably help.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian is decided on a number of factors. It starts with highest weighted GPA, but there are always a few people with the same or nearly equal GPAs (.001 difference or something). But they want one valedictorian, so then they look a extracurriculars and overall involvement in the school community. So being valedictorian at our school is actually pretty impressive. But they name valedictorian after college decisions come out...so it doesn't really make a difference for colleges in that sense.</p>
<p>We don't have valedictorians at our school, nor do we do class rank. Our school system doesn't do that kind of thing, so I guess it doesn't really matter at all. But I would prefer a high class rank to valedictorian honestly.</p>
<p>Wait, isn't valedictorian generally the highest ranking person? So how could you prefer high rank over valedictorian if valedictorian is the highest rank?</p>
<p>Oh, well than I want both, lol.</p>
<p>lol logical...!</p>
<p>Being the val is not that fun, especially if the sal is way more popular than you. Then you get people yelling things at graduation rehearsal like "<name of="" sal=""> is number one in my book!" and classmates thinking you're stuck-up for no real reason. They make it sound like you don't deserve valedictorian when, at my school at least, it is based purely on GPA, so there is no subjectivity involved. I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere, and I didn't even realize it was the case at my school until yesterday. However, if you are the val of your high school, that's an honor you will carry with you for the rest of your life, so it's definitely something to strive for. I guess it's just not that big of a deal in the long run, though, so don't sacrifice other interests, such as extracurriculars, for it.</name></p>