<p>Most definitely not.</p>
<p>He’s of the hard-working, but still intelligent variety.</p>
<p>how do you guys even know or care who the valedictorian is ? I have no idea who it is.</p>
<p>^Umm people brag about it?</p>
<p>^^Everyone always knows. I even know who half of the vals for the junior class are. It’s a really big thing around here. We always try to figure out how many there are. This year, there are actually 5, so of course, there was a rumor that there were 6 and there was an epic Hunt for the Sixth Valedictorian. Hilarious.</p>
<p>We liked figuring out our ranks in physics class. We have 2 vals, #7 (who is the next person after the sal), 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13, and then a bunch of lower people. 6, the sal, is in chemistry, next door, while we are in physics. We wondered who 9 was for a long time, and then I found out it was one of my friends, who took chemistry last year and doesn’t care for physics.</p>
<p>No. Tbh, being a valedictorian in high school doesn’t mean you’re smart. You can BS your way through. I’m not the valedictorian but I guess if I had tried harder (as in been less lazy etc) I could have possibly been one but the point is being a valedictorian does not correlate intelligence, or at least in my school it doesn’t.</p>
<p>Ok, no. Though the guy is on my robotics team and is a smart guy, I’m smarter than the Indian, even at math.</p>
<p>I’m ranked 11, and the top 10 are all stats hogs who went to the middle schools that gave them the HS courses. They apparently have social lives, but complain about all the work.</p>
<p>Me on the other hand, I tutor and help them all. And as a question, what do you guys consider intelligent? Because if we’re not quantifying it, I’m considering myself the most intelligent person in my grade, and maybe top 10 in school.</p>
<p>i wouldnt say that she’s smart per se; i would say that she is rather hard-working and diligent in her studies. I wouldn’t have even cared that she was the valedictorian is she didnt have a completely abrasive personality. But still she worked hard and took a bunch of AP classes rather than opting for the easier honors and regular courses. Come graduation day, i will just have to stomach 10 minutes of her bragging to us about how she’s valedictorian. I’ll survive though</p>
<p>Maybe the smartest booksmart, but no where near the smartest. In my eyes being smart is not just the grades you get in school.</p>
<p>The one in my year is somewhat intelligent, but unfortunately, she’s just another underachiever (lots of those in my school).</p>
<p>How the hell am I suppose to know? I am 100% sure there are underachievers at my school that are just as intelligent as our valedictorian.</p>
<p>How is anybody supposed to know anything? Some people answered with their thoughts. hah.</p>
<p>no. the vals in my grade (there are multiple currently; i’m sal) aren’t the smartest people in the grade. one got rejected from northwestern ED, another deferred at notre dame, another (a questbridge finalist with low-ish scores for QB) deferred from the collegematch round.</p>
<p>Smartest? I wouldn’t necessarily say so. If he did half the amount of work, my guess is he’d still be Top 5%, just wouldn’t be #1 for sure. He works his ass off though and is #1 because of it. The most intelligent kid in our school is about 2-4% I think, and he doesn’t work nearly as hard, but he still pulls in really great grades.</p>
<p>He’s not really the smartest. Because I’m smarter.</p>
<p>He says that I might be a little smart because I took four math classes last year and am in AP Calculus BC, but he looks down upon me because I’m ranked 7/1004.</p>
<p>Everybody’s looking down on me because I’m ranked 7/1004. :(</p>
<p>Even my Asian parents, uncle and aunt, grandmother and grandfather, great uncle and great aunt. My cousins, my brother and sister.</p>
<p>Nobody understands that I have the worst English teacher in the world, and that my biology teacher never gives out oodles of extra credit like the valedictorian’s biology teacher does.</p>
<p>I’m valedictorian: 4.0 GPA UW, self-study Calc AB sophomore year, 5’s in three AP exams, 750 in SAT II Chemistry. Therefore, I’m intelligent, but I do have to admit that I have a 1900 as my SAT score and a 680 for Math II. So, I’m flawed in some aspects. And no, I don’t cheat to get there. It’s all effort and diligence and some better intelligence compared to other people of the top 10, which also consisted of some cheaters.</p>
<p>wow, what a tool. ^</p>
<p>This year’s valedictorian is really annoying. She basically has no life and she gets good grades.</p>
<p>Ok lets see:</p>
<p>Valedictorian - kiss up/extremely hard worker (a typical asian valedictorian), i dont like her</p>
<p>Salutatorian - my best friend, laziest person i have ever met (doesnt start research projects till the night before) but still gets straight A’s, around a 4.5 gpa, probably the straight out smartest person in my grade</p>
<p>Me - ranked top 15 kids, id say im up there for one of the smartest kids in my grade, i would be ranked higher according to my salutatorian friend but i am even lazier then he is and dont try in classes i dont care about (ie. straight As in math/sci/engineering courses but A- in humanities)</p>
<p>My val. this year only has a 1700 SAT score and applied to NYU.</p>
<p>The senior vals (there are two; they used to date lol) are so different. One isn’t particularly brilliant–he’s definitely only val because of his hard work–but he’s a good guy. The other one is an incredibly hard worker but has a lot of natural chops to back it up. Neither are the smartest in their grade though. The two smartest, IMO, are 4/500 (accepted early to Duke, Williams, and NYU) and 40/500 (ED to Columbia). Both are absolutely brilliant.</p>
<p>In my grade, the val’s one of my closest friends but not a particularly creative thinker. He works hard and is good at what he does (math/science) but he’s spread himself a little too thin with the requisite “Asian” activities–community service, piano, church, student government, debate, twelve thousand clubs–to really make an impact. Honestly, though, I’m not particularly impresed with my class in general. My good friends are great people but not big on musing, and most everyone else is just a grind.</p>