<p>Agreed with HisGrace. Get over it.</p>
<p>Now let's not compare her to Blair Hornstine. You guys are being too hard on this girl - she legitimately earned her academic accolades, whereas Blair was a cheater.</p>
<p>I recently met the girl from a mutual friend. She seemed like a friendly, level-headed person--intensely academic, of course, but not a socially inhibited hermit who locks herself up in her room to study all day like some of you are saying, geez! I don't understand why so many of you are being unnecessarily harsh to a person you haven't even met. </p>
<p>And yes, 6.0 scale and even 7.0 GPA scales are quite common in Texas. I'm not sure if this is how it works in Grapevine HS, but at my Texas high school, if you were taking an AP class, your grade would be weighted 20 points higher (+10 for pre-AP). Say if you made a final calculated grade of a 75 in AP Calc BC...well, for rank and GPA purposes, it would count as a 95. Weird, I know..</p>
<p>Sadly, as has been my experience, Texas schools are too large, bureaucratic, and impersonal to care too much about the personal requests of one individual student.</p>
<p>Yea.. I too had a problem with that. I'm used to a 4.0 GPA scale.
I understand the whole AP value > regular credits.
I personally don't think this is that controversial. She only attended the school for 3 years. That's similar to how students who dual enroll their senior year are not eligible for Val. status.
In my case, I lost the val. title to a transfer student, well, might lose.
She switched schools towards the end of her junior year. She was in IB classes, which are weighted higher than AP. It's my understanding that she never took the IB exams, so they may change her credit, but that's all speculation. In my opinion, something like that is more controversial. </p>
<p>This is just a simple matter of time. Really, if she were such a strong student, why is she so worked up over ONE scholarship. Couldn't she have gone for more?</p>
<p>at my school anyone in the top 10 or something like that can be val. it is voted on by the students or something like that. The highest GPA is honored and all but isn't necessarily the valedictorian</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> In six months' time absolutely no one will care that she wasn't the valedictorian. I know that it seems like a really, really, really big deal right now but honestly? It isn't. High school designations cease to matter after graduation, and when you get to college no one cares that you were valedictorian. Everything starts all over.</p>
<p>I'd say she should get over it and start to develop those social and speaking skills more. You can be the smartest person on earth but if you can't ace an interview, you can't get a job!</p>