<p>There are premium point classes that are worth 5 extra points. These include AP's and honors courses. The thing that sucks though is that there are required classes that have no honors component, like Geometry, that end up hurting unless you get a 100 in them. My school just doesn't have unweighted GPA's.</p>
<p>I have a 4.3 currently and am ranked 2/205. If I can get straight A's for second semester I might be able to overtake the current #1. Oh and my high school only offers 5 AP classes but I have only taken 4 of them.</p>
<p>This is really interesting, at my school I'm a junior and I'm taking all AP's and AP's are weighted as 5 points for an A instead of 4 points for an A in Honors or Regular. As a result, I have a 5.0 which at our school is the highest you can achieve. However, as a sophmore I was one AP behind a few people and this year assuming I get all A's, I will tie with the people that I was behind because they are only taking 5 AP's. I go to a public school and it seems that a few of us will all be going into our senior year tied for valedictorian but our school only picks 1 valedictorian, so I'm wondering what's gonna happen if we all tie ;)</p>
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<li><p>One of you - or all of you - will threaten to sue.</p></li>
<li><p>The school board will hold a special meeting, and</p></li>
<li><p>The Board will vote, 9-0, to abolish the valedictorian designation, and</p></li>
<li><p>One of you - or all of you - WILL sue!</p></li>
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<p>Add a point 5:</p>
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<li> One of the two took a non honors Driving course while the other took a private drivers ed course. Even though the student that took the course at the school got the highest grade possible in Drivers ED it still lowered his GPA (because driver's ed is not a weighted course) and lowered his GPA .00001 below the other candidate. The parent of this child will stand up at the Board meeting and say it is not FAIR and the Board should be ashamed.</li>
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<p>They could use tie breakers like only calculating core class GPA or even SAT scores (they do that at my school, but I dont think we have ever had a tie).</p>
<p>I think there were 17 or so valedictorians last year. My school is massive, and valedictorian is UNweighted 4.0. So it's basically everyone. And they all give speeches. </p>
<p>Needless to say, graduation is long as hell.</p>
<p>goodness!! i thought two speeches can get a little long. thank goodness the graduating class here is small (165)... and since we go to an arts school there are many great performances.</p>
<p>Florida GPA's are kinda inflated:</p>
<p>I am Valedictorian (although not officially declared) and I have a 6.67 GPA. My rival has a 6.64 GPA-- VERY CLOSE!</p>
<p>we get .08 for every quarter in an AP class---but we are on block scheduling so there are onlu 4 classes a day.</p>
<p>17 valedictorian..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:O</p>
<p>....we have 23 (may be 24, still waiting for final confirmation)</p>
<p>It's ridiculous. Kids are talking about throwing vals off stage if they talk for more than 30 seconds :)</p>
<p>wow... the parents in our school district are going to have to protest. </p>
<p>In our Texas district: </p>
<p>AP: A = 7.0
Honors: A = 7.0
Accelerated: A = 7.0 (the old regular level, before top ten per cent law....practically everyone takes this level, especially those wanting to make top ten percent for Texas colleges)
Regular: A = 6.0 (the old remedial level, before top ten percent law)
Remedial: A = 5.0 (this level is a mystery...no one takes classes at this level.)</p>
<p>Hm, my school usually has about 20-something every year, but that's because it's all on an unweighted 4.0 scale. So it ends up with a good mix of star students who took APs and honors classes all throughout high school, and those who just took easier, curriculum-level classes.</p>
<p>I don't think grad even includes val speeches anymore.</p>
<p>our school's on a 5.0 weighted system. i have a 4.9273 as val and a 4.0 unweighted out of a class of ~700.</p>
<p>This is nuts. I'm like 12 or so/171 and I have a 90 UW avg. Our valedictorian is like slightly above a 95. Getting a 99 or 100 for a quarter in a major academic subject is pretty much unheard of, never mind a full year. I wish I went to a school that gave out grades</p>
<p>wow all you guys must have easy schools. The highest average anyone in my school has i an A- (about a 10.8 on a 12 pt grade scale). I have about a 10 flat.</p>
<p>I think it's a bit unfair that Honors and AP classes are both a 5.0 at my school because I have taken more AP classes one or two people who took honors classes have a higher GPA. Up until junior year I have a 4.78 GPA but I think that highest GPA is a 4.83 (on a 4.0 scale). Our school doesn't compute class rank though and the valedictorian is chosen by submitting your speech and the best speech is chosen to be valedictorian since my school is really competitive.</p>
<p>I am ranked 1/350 (approximately 350 students), with a weighted GPA of 4.46 and UW of 4.0. My school gives a 5.0 for an "A" in an AP class, 4.5 for an "A" in an honors class, and a 4.0 for an "A" in a standard class. The salutatorian for our school is right behind me, with something like a 4.44 or 4.45 GPA.</p>
<p>My school does not calculate weighted GPA, so valedictorian status is based on UW GPA. And I'm positive that there is more than one 4.0 per graduating class, so I suppose there are multiple valedictorians...</p>
<p>For now I'm definitely on track for being one of them :)</p>
<p>thank GOD we don't rank or calc GPA.</p>