<p>Does she know you have a say in the decision?</p>
<p>Would she do the same for you if the roles were reversed?</p>
<p>Yeah i would agree, a true friend wouldn't be mad because of class rank.</p>
<p>thats not a real friend if that friend is letting competition get in the way</p>
<p>she's bringing it to court? wow, such a blair hornstine.</p>
<p>when it all comes down to it? you took more classes, so you deserve it more.</p>
<p>let's say that someone took 3 classes and got an A for each, while another person only took one and got an A. i know it's not the same as your example, but you took more classes, had more work, yet still ended up with a higher GPA than she did.</p>
<p>besides, what are the chances you'll ever see her after high school anyhow?</p>
<p>It sounds like she is just bitter. The reality is that her GPA is lower than yours. I know it seems like it is not fair to her, but is it fair to you? You were informed of this achievement weeks ago, and now you have to deal with this? People should just let you enjoy this glory. I agree with others - if she really is a good friend, she would be happy for you and not going to such strangely extreme measures to want part of the honor. I understand that she may be angry since she came so close, but come on, I'm sure the school board has more important things to deal with. The fact that she has had numerous awards/titles and had been more out there while you have been more reserved shouldn't even matter much in this situation. You got the position because you worked hard for it. I'm curious as to how big the case will blow out to be, but since she and her parents are working so hard to fight for it, you should fight back. o_O</p>
<p>If shes bringing it to court before a descision was even made there is no way in hell that you should do a favor like this to her. Why would you be nice to her if she is treating you rotten.</p>
<p>I wouldn't have any qualms about sharing the sal title. I am the next after sal, still great friends with him. I would rather have this friendship than the sal title. </p>
<p>BUT...it sounds like this person is really nasty, and most certainly not a friend worth having...so I say b!tchslap her. lol</p>
<p>Screw her. From the sounds of it, she's not a true friend and doesn't deserve your generosity.</p>
<p>It's sad that the person who actually deserves the title is the one worried about the disintegrating friendship while the one that doesn't is the one complaining about it and the one who seems perfectly complacent with a possible friendship loss. DUMP HER AND TAKE THE TITLE!!! (in no particular order...)</p>
<p>I know this is unrelated, but I'm curious. Where did Blair Hornstine end up attending after Harvard rescinded her?</p>
<p>Uh, at this point everyone will know that she didn't get named Sal if she's actually taking this to the Board. I just read your second post. She'll make a super big deal about it, and she'll look like a complete jerk and if you just relent and let her share it, you'll have lost nothing since everyone know she got it by fighting. Don't do it to be her friend; she sounds awful. Do it because very soon you will turn around and realize that it means very, very little in the overall scheme of things....</p>
<p>Why do you care?
..just share it and save the drama.</p>
<p>May I ask what's so special about being salutatorian? What is salutatorian to begin with? If it's another word for valedictorian, then no one cares about it beyond high school. I hardly see how having this status will affect your prospects in the future, let alone having another student in your school have it.</p>
<p>But yet the principle is still wrong. This friendship is debatable; the facts are not.</p>
<p>Haha, we don't have this Valedictorian, Salutatorian stuff in my school...probably because we know that every year, there'll be some sort of argument.</p>
<p>I don't get why your friend is being a jealous fiend and making you share the salutatorian title.</p>
<p>Well I did talk to my friend today. She's mostly going after the title because she says she didn't know that being a TA could harm her chances at it, and she thinks she deserves it too. She was surprised that I even knew about the whole ordeal, and seemed upset because she said it doesn't really concern me. She thinks that as long as it's not taken away from me, it shouldn't matter to me, and it seemed like my feelings are disregarded in her eyes. She left practically in tears, and while she is a good friend in other regards, she just always been competitive.</p>
<p>birdkiller - salutatorian is the name for the person ranked 2nd. it's like valedictorian, but one rank below.</p>
<p>I dont think she is a very good friend to begin with. A real friend would have been happy that their friend got Salutorian, instead of bitter and jealous about it.</p>
<p>This is why schools shouldn't even have titles like "valedictorian" or "salutatorian".. or even disclose students their rank, for that matter!</p>