<p>Im sure this question is often asked, and that cases vary depending on schools, but i was curious. For those valedictorians, I was wondering what your GPA was to earn you such titles, as well as the percentages for your grades... any approximation would help me out. Also, did you beat out your opponents by a landslide, or were you close? </p>
<p>if you weren't declared valedictorian, but were ranked in the top 5 of your class, i would also greatly appreciate it if you told how much you lost by. </p>
<p>Thanks again to those who took the time to read.</p>
<p>I'm not officially valedictorian yet since I'm still in Junior year, but if I keep up my grades I ought to be. I have just over a 98% average, we have no 4.0 scale, and I'm not sure what my weighted average is. Most of the classes factored into that are honors level and some 'regular' level. So far in my AP classes (4) my average is somehow higher at just under 99%. My opponents are close, but far enough for me to not constantly worry about dropping.</p>
<p>my school doesn't weight classes at all. so basically I was named val. because I have an u.w. 4.0 gpa on a 4.0 scale -- I've only gotten A's, no A-'s during High School. It kind of stinks because I have to share the honor with 2 other people who also have 4.0's. In past years it has been kind of unfair because some of the 4.0-ers have taken a much easier course load than others who had a 4.0 with a difficult course load. This year it worked out though, because the two guys I share it with have taken a course load that's equally as difficult as mine, so i don't feel cheated at all. We have all taken the hardest classes offered at my school, so we all desearve the honor. I do think it would be better if my school started weighting grades though, because I know that traditionally there should only be one val. Is mine the only school that names more than one val, if there are 2 or 3 students who have the same academic and leadership record? Just wondering...?</p>
<p>I was wondering that myself. It is assumed that if you are ranked number 1 that you were declared Val, but my personal belief is that It's much more noted if you put it on your applications. After all, it is an honor being valedictorian, and to me, putting a couple of numbers on a page, just doesnt satisfy what the title should be. (Personal opinion)</p>
<p>I am number 2 in my class of 170ish. My weighted GPA is about a 4.7, and the val in my class has a much higher one (I'd estimate 4.9-5.1). I know it will be quasi-impossible to rise to valedictorian level, but I'm not complaining.</p>
<p>I never really thought of people as valedictorians until the very end, at graduation. Until then, #1 just happens to be #1 for the time being.</p>
<p>At my school, everyone in the top... 30 is pretty close. People get ahead by taking the right classes (APs) at the right time (before college admissions class ranks come out), then taking the required non-honors classes afterwards (when they've already been accepted and it doesn't matter anymore). It's basically a matter of how you plan your high school courses out.</p>
<p>As of the end of junior year, I was ranked 4 in my class of 375. My unweighted GPA was about a 98, and my weighted average was 104.7. The weighting system at my school WENT by the following system.
AP-1.15
Honors-1.10
Regents- 1.05
Regular Class- 1.00</p>
<p>They will re-rank again in a few months and declare the valedictorian and the salutatorian. Right now, I believe I am about 1 to 1.5 weighted points behind #1.</p>
<p>Notice how I said went, now my school is lowering the weighting system, not because of grade inflation, but because of a dramatic increase in class size. Each class used to be 300-350 people, now they are in the 425-500 range. Since our school is too cheap to hand out numerous merit scholarships and the auditorium is too small to host the annual honors convention, our new weighting system is as follows:
AP- 1.11
Honors- 1.07
Regents- 1.03
Regular- 1.00</p>
<p>This stinks because it looks like my senior grades are falling slightly when, in fact, they are increasing!</p>
<p>i was fairly interested to note other people mentioning whether or not some valedictorians have worked hard enough to be where they are at. I know some schools have faculty or the students vote, and others have scrapped it altogether. Personally, even though I like my rank 1 status :-p, I'd like faculty to vote just because you're of high rank doesn't mean you represent your class or will speak well in graduation. You're more likely to, of course, but I can think of many people who would be awesome speakers, vals, if they had the opportunity to be voted in, it seems more democratic, that way.</p>
<p>103.415 on a 100 scale. Number 2 is about .3 behind and then 3 and 4 are like 3 points behind that. In my school everything is weighted and I believe I have only gotten 7 99's and 1 98 on my transcript out of 36 classes in my high school career. The weight is added on to those grades.</p>
<p>At my school, the title of "valedictorian" is given to anyone with a weighted 4.0. So, yeah, we have at least 10 "valedictorians" every year.</p>
<p>I'm 1, and there's no chance #2 or below will change that; the difference is too large. I didn't put "valedictorian" because it didn't really make sense--the title isn't given 'til the end of the year, right?</p>
<p>Oh, something that sucks: the valedictorian doesn't speak at my school, probably because there are so many, and to pick one would create a preference among the pseudo-titles.</p>