<p>Well there is a bit of a dilemma at my school. We are in our senior year and there are 4 students ranked number 1/243 (i'm one of them)my W GPA:4.176 UW GPA:3.89. We don't know who they are going to pick as I assume the can only be one? Things are getting so cutthroat around this school its ridiculous. One of the four is join so many clubs because he think it will help him get pick. My head hurts think about it sorry for this I just needed somewhere to express this problem.
P.S-What is your Valedictorian GPA?</p>
<p>I’m in the same situation; however, our school goes to the ACT score for the scholarship money. Unfortunately I had the lower score.</p>
<p>My hs had three co-valedictorians. I would ask your gc what the normal procedure is in this instance.</p>
<p>Lol I have 4.4444 weighted, 4.0 unweighted and I’m basically out of it. </p>
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<p>Not necessarily. </p>
<p>I’m ranked either third or fourth and I have the highest possible non-4.0 GPA, so I’m assuming the valedictorian at my school has a 4.0. (We don’t have weighted GPA.) My school doesn’t let two people have the same class rank, and I kind of suspect they rank people in alphabetical order when there’s a tie, but I’m not sure. :D</p>
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Lucky we have this one teacher at our school(I sadly took him) he teaches APUSH he has never EVERRRRRRR given anyone in his AP class a A the only B I have ever gotten in high school. The highest the GPA at our school can go is 4.2-4.25 due to taking majority of the AP classes senior year. </p>
<p>For us, we have incredibly small class sizes (like 40 people) so there are usually a couple of people with perfect GPAs (private school kids be cray, yo). Our school then looks at percentages in classes to determine rank. </p>
<p>Every single admin at my school has told me that we don’t rank, but somehow we have a valedictorian and salutatorian every year… 8-| </p>
<p>Ooh, for us it’s crazy this year. The valedictorian last year had a 4.43, but this year I have a 4.46 and I’m ranked 8th in my class. </p>
<p>For what it is worth, a few years out of school you will likely not even remember who the valedictorian was. Even less chance it will matter to you. Enjoy your own success and don’t sweat the titles.</p>
<p>Seeing all the stress and backstabbing on this site over these rankings has made me very glad our school doesn’t do this, or maybe they do at the very end, but anyhow it’s not something I’ve heard a word about. And Torveaux is right–our high school didn’t rank numerically; I know I wasn’t val in my class, but I have no idea who was. Unless you have a big scholarship riding on this, it’s really just a silly thing that will already be old news no one cares about by the time you show up in college in the fall.</p>
<p>I don’t let this get to me as much as the others.I’m not as grimy as the other three I came to point if I get I get, if I don’t I don’t. Went to school to day as usually their at war with each other 8-| . The things I seen today had me laughing my butt off 
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<p>I think my school has like 2 valedictorians, but 26 people with 4.0 gpa’s.</p>
<p>Some will make you write an essay and then will pick the top, some do alphabetically, some look at percentages, some have co-vals. There’s a lot of options, you’ll have to ask your school.</p>
<p>At my school we only have UW GPA because everyone takes the same classes. And for the past two years we’ve had 2 co-vals. Next year I will be one of five co-vals.</p>
<p>I go to a high school with huge grade inflation. Valedictorian often in the 4.7’s and 4.5’s ranks about ~10-20th percentile. </p>
<p>@elf4EVA: Same by us, but I actually believe them (for a change…)- the valedictorian is usually selected three days before graduation with just enough time given to allow them to write and practice a speech. It’s really not a big deal. Nobody knows each other’s grades, even after they announce valedictorian.
I already know I’m out of the running so I’m not really thinking about it.</p>
<p>That seems like a pickle. Does your counselor or admin not tell you what the procedure is for picking a Val? I mean, you could tell your counselor/admin the current situation (they probably already know) and express your concern. Someone should know, and be persistent - after all, it is a notable honor and you deserve to know.</p>
<p>I’m a Co-Val with a friend of mine at my HS! Graduating this year. Our class has 540~ people, and we rank based off our weighted GPA. We both have 4.59/5.0 GPA which we’re both rather proud of since we never backstabbed each other and did all we could. In truth, she has more A’s than me, but I took more AP classes which led to our GPA’s eventually balancing out. I’m excited about how our duo-speech will turn out! </p>
<p>Good luck to you! Don’t stress about this too much since you are graduating and this shouldn’t be a time of so much worry! </p>
<p>That’s kind of crazy. We have two girls (and they’re Asian, I know…) kind of shuffling back and forth at #1 and #2, and we’re sophomores. One wants to go to Harvard, another wants to go to Stanford, but the Stanford-girl is a lot of more competitive and a little more, uh, cut-throat than the other. Still, Harvard-girl is just damn smart and focused. I think Stanford wants it more and has invested much more of her ego into her GPA than Harvard, but she might have a hernia before she graduates, so that’ll give Harvard an open spot lol</p>
<p>I’ve never had any interest in being val, although I’m definitely trying to maintain my top 10 spot just because I think I can. We’re not a super competitive public school though (I have about a 3.8-something UWGPA and I’m like 8, although rank goes by WGPA and I don’t know what mine is). </p>
<p>I don’t think 1,2,3,4 really makes a difference, although I understand the desire to be recognized. But what will be much more important to people, whether you’re #1 or #360, is what school you get into. Our last val got into Brown, but a girl who ranked 6 got into Northeastern and there were other really good schools. I think they’re both great schools btw, but it just goes to show that you’re rank alone isn’t good at determining what school you go to. You’ll probably all be co-vals, I think that’s the fairest way to go about it, but if that’s not how it happens don’t stress it.</p>
<p>Got an up date! So I just got back from the school(Parent Teacher Conference) and I ask my counselor what the procedure is for selecting valedictorian she said they go by test score before I could ask which one she left… </p>
<p>Now I have a 35 on the ACT which is highest in school and a 2240 on SAT two of the four people are above me with perfect 2400. Should I take the SAT again and try to get a 2400? I feel like i’m worrying over nothing, but I really do want to be valedictorian. Even if it does mean sharing.</p>