<p>When schools calculate GPA in order to pick Valedictorian,
do they include GPA from all grades? (9th~ 12th) or just use GPA during 12th grade?</p>
<p>Check with your school, though I know that the GPA for our valedictorian is based on anywhere from 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 semesters depending on if the student has been in the high school since freshman year or had moved in from another town, bu the must have moved in by the beginning of junior year for his GPA to qualify.</p>
<p>3 1/2 to 7 1/2 <--- what are all these numbers?</p>
<p>Number of semesters.</p>
<p>my hs-> only 12th grade. unless 2 or more students tie with the same GPA/average%. (if so... back to grade 11..then 10..then 9..then 8..)</p>
<p>My high school ranks students based on GPA (someone graduates first in class, second in class, etc...) but we don't have a valedictorian or salutitorian. Weird, huh?</p>
<p>my school system doesn't have valedictorian so ppl won't "feel bad" if they don't get it pfft</p>
<p>At our school all HS level classes get averaged in from 8th - 12th. I think thats unfair because I'm in honors classes so a few of my 8th grade classes count at 9th grade ones, so they got averaged in. 7th & 8th grade weren't good years from me (as opposed to 9th-12th where I have straight As) so them averaging in 8th grade brought me down a bit. ;|</p>
<p>But as other people said, it depends on your school. ;P</p>
<p>yes they sure doopity doo. (cbeck with your escuela though)</p>
<p>so.. every school differs?</p>
<p>Bottom line is that each school has its own way to do things. So the colleges take the course list, grades and the school profile so that they can do their own quick calculations (it can't be very thorough because they get flooded with applications). However, no matter what the method of calculation done by the school, if it puts down a rank on the transcript it means a lot to the college ADCOMs. Sometimes it is unfair if tough courses are valued the same as easy ones in GPA and rank calcs. But that is life. My school uses weighted GPA method for rank determination.</p>
<p>our school does it differently..the valedictorian is not necessarily the person with the highest GPA....</p>
<p>Quote from school website....
"The valedictorian and salutatorian will be chosen by the administration from the top 10% of the class according to the cumulative GPA at the end of the first semester of the senior year. Factors to be considered include, but are not limited to, the following: GPA, courses taken, attendance, school activities and honors. Students will also be asked to present a speech."</p>
<p>at my school they add up the percentage earned in each class as to prevent "ties". Otherwise there would be several students with the same GPAs since a 100% is given the same point value as a 98%.</p>
<p>my school doesn't have a val but we still have a # 1, 2, etc. My school takes the core classes(english, math, science, history) and calculate those classes into a gpa and rank you based on that. No electives are included. So you official gpa might be higher than your class rank gpa. Also, if you don't take one of the core classes one year, you can't qualify for the top ten. It's really stupid.</p>
<p>What if you run out of math classes or something by senior year?</p>
<p>To be honest with you I don't know. i believe its 4 credits of math so if you took a couple classes in middle school you are still considered. I not sure about that. Its really stupid on they do it. It used to go be gpa but then people started coming about how people who took less demanding schedules got better gpa's since they unweight them for the rankings. It was a long situation and they decided to do it that way. The school district and the school are both studpid when it comes to this stuff.</p>
<p>What value does gettin valedictorian possess. Is it more self pride or can it translate into scholarship money?</p>
<p>It depends on the school but I gander that plenty of state schools awards sals and vals for their accomplishments. I mean I know that TCNJ [well used to, don't know now consider NJ education :(] would give $1000 a year to those who are number 1, 2, or 3 in their class and obviously being a val obviously puts you in that selective group of top 5% in your school which when combined with the right SAT score can get you free tuition, room and board, etc. so there are definitely benefits, you just have to look in the right place.</p>