<p>We had 15 tied for Val, Laf.</p>
<p>lafalum: some high school classes are very large (~600-800), so it's not inconceivable to have 15-20 people with perfect unweighted GPAs. If a school decides valedictorian based on weighted GPAs, the number tends to go way down.</p>
<p>Well, they just all have the same GPA. We don't do it off of weighted, which, frankly, I do kind of agree with, since that means students who take more classes have less of a chance of the highest GPA since it's divided by the number of classes you take.</p>
<p>Valedictorian for Class of 2007 (not my year)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.3 W
EARCOS Global Citizenship Award Recipient
Harvard</p>
<p>Valedictorian got accepted to MIT with merit based aid.</p>
<p>my valedictorian (last year) got into:</p>
<p>-Dartmouth
-Brown
-Cornell
-Columbia
-MIT
-SUNY Geneseo
-Syracuse</p>
<p>She went to MIT</p>
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<p>This year my valedictorian got into:</p>
<p>-CUNY Baruch Honors College
-NYU</p>
<p>She didn't get into the other school she applied to, Columbia. and she went to CUNY Baruch Honors College.</p>
<p>our validictorian and salutatorian both went to Columbia</p>
<p>just wondering. how are valedictorian and salutorian picked? also, my school doesnt have those so i was wondering, what exactly are they?
thankss</p>
<p>at our school, the valedictorian is the student with the highest close rank, and sulatorian is #2</p>
<p>i cannot believe the class of '07 valedictorian at my school went to auburn.. i dont know thats just dumb. he's pretty much a genius and can go to wherever the hell he wants to but chose to go to auburn. oh yeah and then the sal. chose alabama, but she got accepted to vanderbilt and uva (there is no financial trouble with either of those two). pshh</p>
<p>I still don't believe a school can have 15 ties for Valedictorian. That's insane.</p>
<p>My son's class had 358 graduates. We weight the GPA, for class rank we use a system where an A in a College Prep classes gets the same point value as a B in an honors class, and a B+ is worth more than a B, which is worth more than a B-, etc. In the past 10 years we have never had a tie for Val or Sal.</p>
<p>I can see a 2 or even a 3 way tie, but if you have a 15 way tie you need a much better ranking system. Or give up and don't bother ranking.</p>
<p>(FYI, way back in the day when I was in hs, our school had classes of about 420, and didn't do Val & Sal. They simply indicated the Top 5 graduates in the program, and engraved their names on a plaque in the hs lobby. Of course you know who was number 6 don't you??)</p>
<p>our system is passed off the 100% system</p>
<p>and there are 4 decimal points afterward it...there is NO way people can tie</p>
<p>"I still don't believe a school can have 15 ties for Valedictorian. That's insane."</p>
<p>Somehow we did. We had around 430ish in my grade. They eventually broke the tie and somehow named a val and sal though.</p>
<p>val harvard not sure the rest
sal yale got into harvard& stanford as well</p>
<p>Val went to Brown, sal went to Williams.</p>
<p>07: val- dartmouth
sal- amherst</p>
<h1>3- northwestern</h1>
<h1>4- columbia</h1>
<h1>5- johns hopkins</h1>
<h1>6- brown</h1>
<p>06: val: yale (accepted everywhere...)
sal: barnard</p>
<p>05: val: harvard</p>
<p>04: val: princeton</p>
<p>07 val-princeton
06 val-duke
05 val-darthmouth or yale?</p>
<p>04 val - dartmouth
05 val - yale
06 val - dartmouth
07 val - yale</p>
<p>i sense a trend</p>
<p>We don't have a val, we have two top academic achievers. </p>
<p>One's going to Emory, the other is going to Northwestern.</p>
<p>The other top ten students are going to Rice, University of AZ, AZ State University, CalTech.</p>
<p>^ Wow. </p>
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<p>If there were ever a more glaring example of how schools have tried to mitigate the 'Generation Me' phenomenon, I think I would throw up.</p>