<p>How would it be chosen? I think this is what's going to happen this year for the seniors. I'm sure it's different for every school (Voting, multiple val's..)?</p>
<p>Most schools just have multiple vals’s. Voting will be just another popularity contest.</p>
<p>We have something like 15-25 valedictorians each year.</p>
<p>(Curse this UW GPA ranking.)</p>
<p>Depends on the school. My school doesn’t have a weighted grading system, so there are multiple people with 4.0s. They all get to be valedictorians.</p>
<p>Ours is weighted, and same highest GPA’s has only happened once. In that case, they were co-vals and shared the speech</p>
<p>The teachers pick at my school… :/</p>
<p>Last year, my school had two vals… they both had the exact same GPA, so we just declared them co-valedictorians, and there was no salutatorian.</p>
<p>The administrators organize a cage-fighting tournament. Last one alive gets to be val.</p>
<p>Our school has a ‘system’ for picking the val. The first criteria is used first, if scores are the same they go to the next criteria and so on</p>
<ol>
<li>Weighted GPA</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA</li>
<li>Number of letters obtained from any school activity (sports, academics, clubs etc)</li>
</ol>
<p>To my knowledge the second criteria has only been used once. The third criteria has never been used.</p>
<p>All of them (though there are only 1 or 2, since we use weighted GPA).</p>
<p>Since there’s about 20 students with 4.0 UW GPA in my grade, the W GPA is used to determine rank.</p>
<p>We use a weighted scale of 100, with honors classes receiving an extra 5 points and AP or IB receiving an extra 10. If 1 and 2 are within .1 points of each other, they are co-valedictorians and there is no salutatorian.</p>