<p>So you didn’t get val. And…? You’re still ranked 1. Colleges could care less whether you’re a val and in a year you wouldn’t care either.</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter what so ever, once you are in college no one will even ask you about high school</p>
<p>@Polyglot Irony? o.o hmm… wasn’t really thinking on the lines of that, just stating my opinion, but yeah I can see what you mean.</p>
<p>I think your school’s policy on valedictorian was poorly thought out.</p>
<p>To require a student to make an “A” in every class will keep students from taking challenging courses in areas they aren’t gifted in because they may receive a “B.”</p>
<p>The requirement of 4 AP classes seems to be there to allow weighting to still be determined by unweighted GPA, but also to keep students from just taking a lot of easy classes.</p>
<p>However, AP classes are not created equal, and students should be free to take many AP courses without fearing “that one ‘B.’”</p>
<p>Lastly, this requirement means that some students will register in an AP class they aren’t prepared for and possibly pressure teachers to boost their grades because that 1 B will drop them 15 places.</p>
<p>The need to change the policy is not simply a matter of being fair to students, but proper school administration. I would definitely bring it up–just make sure to do it in the right manner.</p>
<p>Our school has a dumb policy on weighnig classes, only 4 semesters of AP classes count as weighted, then after that they only count as Honors, and after 14 total semesters of honors class they all are weighed the same. Not that that will stop me but you’d think they would realize they had a problem when there are 15-25 valedictorians every year…</p>
<p>I’m jealous of your A/B/C/D (no -/+) grading system.</p>
<p>elau, I hoped you didn’t really mean what you had posted in your original post. So, you believe the Op should have wasted his/her opportunities to maintain the valedictorian status? Do you also think it’s fair of the school to be ‘forcing’ students to learn less if they want to easily become a valedictorian? If you do, that would be very sad, you know.</p>
<p>yea man as long as your top 10% your good, even if you not the only #1 you will still get into a good school, and the real world wont care, it will be alot harder to do this in college</p>
<p>at my school they have this system where if you graduate with honors you have above a 94 weighted, high honors is 96 weighted and highest honors over 100 weighted (so you have to take an AP)</p>
<p>@polyglot: Huh? I didn’t say he/she should’ve wasted their opportunities to maintain valedictorian status. I said that they should’ve planned this well out. Weigh the pros and cons of taking so many APs. 15 APs are a lot. So it’s obvious that there’s a high chance they’ll get an undesired grade. What I’m implying is that they should’ve used the school’s system to their advantage if it allow you to become val. by taking only 4+ APs. They didn’t need to go the long way. And yes I know, some people like to learn more, but do you really need to take 15 APs to be satisfied? Most people i know have taken 8-10 as a max o.O</p>