<p>ours is going to ''a community college''..... yeah she got a 17 ACT!</p>
<p>O_O how does THAT happen??</p>
<p>really bad cheating.</p>
<p>Our Valedictorian this year was a grade manipulator, so her ECs weren't great at all...</p>
<p>Georgia Tech
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Early Medical School Acceptance</p>
<p>The salutatorian was much better...
Stanford (going here)
Princeton
Wash U in St Louis</p>
<p>My high school selects the valedictorian and saluditorian in a committee of all interested teachers, advisors, coaches, and administrators via unweighted GPA (for all four years), number of AP/Honors classes taken, grades in those classes, and involvement in school sponsored activities (i.e. sports and clubs).</p>
<p>For the first time in a decade, we have more than one valedictorian. And for the first time since anyone still has the records for (and we're talking >35 years), we have four valedictorians this year (All have a 4.000 uw GPA, same # of AP/Honors classes, and comparable ecs).</p>
<p>One was accepted ED to Princeton and had to withdraw his other applications prior to any decisions.</p>
<p>Another was accepted ED to Clairemont McKenna and had to withdraw her other applications prior to any decisions.</p>
<p>The third was accepted to UC Berkeley and rejected or waitlisted to all his other choices (Vanderbuilt, UCLA, CalTech, Carnegie Melon, others)</p>
<p>I was accepted to USC, UCSB, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Cornell. I was rejected from Stanford and Yale. I was deferred, waitlisted, and subsequently rejected to MIT. I will be attending UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>2004~2005
Valedictorian: CalTech
Salutatorian: UC Berkeley</p>
<p>2003~2004:
Valedictorian: Harvard
Salutatorian: Harvard</p>
<p>Let me say they are all smart and hard-working (and also well-deserved) students.</p>
<p>2003-2004
Valedictorian: attending Wake Forest (full-ride), also admitted to UNC, Duke, MIT
Salutatorian: attending Duke (ED)</p>
<p>2004-2005
Valedictorian: will attend Duke (ED)
Salutatorian: will attend Wake Forest (almost full-ride), also admitted to UNC, Duke, Davidson, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago</p>
<p>An interesting pattern emerges...</p>
<p>Our "valedictorian" is going to Valparaiso University. Valedictorian pretty much means nothing at my school because there is no weighted GPA for honors or AP's. Consequently, only 23 out of about 400 kids will be graduating with distinguished honors. (Our val isn't one of them) Our principal is focused on mediocrity and making things level for everyone. Anyway, I know many others going to better places NYU, 2 at Notre Dame, 1 at U Penn, a couple at Northwestern, and me at Stanford:)</p>
<p>damn commies. lol.</p>
<p>UPenn, Wharton... Fisher Management & Technology program (ED)</p>
<p>Past 3 valedictorians, all UPenn... I live in Jersey.</p>
<p>Our val is going to either Duke or Rice i forgot....sal is gong to USC... many more people are going to good colleges, including Princeton(baseball recruit), harvard EA(ranks #6 or so), Amherst, Columbia(football recruit), Rice(at least 5 are going). Many Rice acceptees turn down other choices, such as Uchicago, Duke and Brown to attend Rice, probably because we're from Houston. Last year's val went to Carnegie Mellon, #2 and 3 both got into Yale, but #3 picked Northwestern...</p>
<p>2005--
Valedictorian:I'm going to Berkeley (decided between Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley)
Salutatorian: UC San Diego</p>
<p>2004--
Valedictorian: Yale (decided between Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, and Yale)
Salutatorian: Harvard (decided between Harvey Mudd and Harvard)</p>
<p>Our school has two vals:
One's going to MIT, and the other's going to Stanford.</p>
<p>Our Salutatorian is going to Emerson for journalism.</p>
<p>I'm the Valedictorian, and I'll be going to Cornell.</p>
<p>Accepted:
Cornell
U Rochester
RPI
Union</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Columbia
Colgate</p>
<p>(I didn't bother staying on Columbia's waitlist, I'll be happier at Cornell)</p>
<p>The valedictorian at my high school went to Imperial College in the UK.</p>
<p>As a side note, there are 6 valedictorians on my floor alone. And there are only twenty of us here. Finding this out the first week of school was kinda intimidating. Hah.</p>
<p>at my school, the val is going to Purdue
One other student got accepted at UVA
Also Boston College, and off the waitlist at Wake Forest.</p>
<pre><code> I've never ever heard of a person at my school even applying to a top 20 USNEWS school. It's a crappy public school. Does this improve my chances? Val last year went to UMich.
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<p>our school doesnt do valedictorian based on just grades...but anyways...she is going to UNC-CH. other people are going to princeton, yale, harvard, cornell, columbia, georgetown, berkeley, stanford, etc.</p>
<p>Val -Williams College
Sal - UC Berkeley (in-state)</p>
<p>2003: UPENN
2004: UC Berkeley
2005: Boston University</p>
<p>1st - Boston University (waitlisted at Columbia)
2nd - UCLA (rejected at Stanford and MIT)
3rd (me) - Stanford (accepted at MIT, Columbia)</p>
<p>goes to show you ranking means nothing.</p>
<p>My best friend was the valedictorian last year and she ended up choosing between Berkeley and William and Mary. She went with William and Mary. Our salutatorian got accepted to Princeton ED.</p>