<p>From my experience Valedictorians aren't always the smartest people in a school. This is true most of the time if there is a truly exceptional valedictorian but mostly it is somebody who has an avid work habit and does all of his/her homework and studies all the time for tests and quizzes. The smartest kid in my school, for example, is still highly ranked (maybe 8 or 9) but it so insanely smart. He is easily the smartest naturally. I doubt he studies for anything yet manages to score perfectly on all the exams. He could easily be valedictorian if he did all of his hw. plus he is korean so that further proves my theory that koreans own us.</p>
<p>Our school's val is smart. We have math competitions like the AMC and AIME and the val often has the top scores.</p>
<p>I think that the val of my school is probably the smartest in the grade, but it's just a coincidence that he's ranked number 1 (he happened to take more weighted classes than the rest of us with 4.0s.) He also cheats and presents the facade of never trying on anything... but I have a lot of respect for his intellectual capacity because I know him very well. (No, I don't have respect for the fact that he cheats, nor do I think that he deserves the grades, despite the fact that he's easily capable of earning them on his own merit.) </p>
<p>There are also two guys who are a little bit lower-ranked (number five and maybe number eight or so) whom I consider REALLY REALLY smart... they do study and do all of their homework and stuff, but they do SO well that I know that they're really intelligent. I mean, some people study far more and still don't pull off the consistent high A's that these two people earn. </p>
<p>There is not necessarily a correlation between grades and intelligence, but the people I know seem to fit pretty well in a theoretical graph. </p>
<p>I do know a kid whom I consider far above average in intelligence (definitely equal to several of my 4.0 peers) that has a GPA of somewhere between .5 and .7...</p>
<p>No, not at my school</p>
<p>lol the val that just graduated from my school was the dumbest in the top 10. but he took 20+ classes OUTSIDE of school so there it is. the smartest kids were number 3 and number 7 (attending yale and stanford respectively)
in my grade the val is the dumbest in the top 6 or so but shes taking EXTREME classes outside of school. the number two, myself (4-5) and the kid directly below me are most likely the smartest in the grade along with some kid ranked in the 50s that doesnt do any work</p>
<p>Haha in my school the Val was retarded. She cheated her way through a bunch of stuff, hated school, and was an idiot overall. </p>
<p>But she was nice and it really wasn't none of anyone's business so no one told on her for the entire 4 years. </p>
<p>She once asked me: "The Cold War was between the U.S. and... Russia right?"</p>
<p>In the middle of a Cold War test we had studied for like 2 months. Yah...</p>
<p>Anyway, there were other people in the Top 10 who were wayyyyyyy smarter than her. The only reason why they weren't Val was because they probably got a B here or there as opposed to her straight As. However, they were more interested in whatever subject they were pursuing as opposed to her who only wanted to get an A on every class and "hated school".</p>
<p>me ha ha ha ha</p>
<p>Hmmm...our val is definitely smart naturally, but she was number 1 because she worked about a million times harder than anyone else in the class. Our sal would probably kick her ass on an IQ test, and there are a few others (when I'm being vain, I like to include myself in this group) who are probably more gifted naturally- we just don't study anywhere near as much as she does, so all the more power to her.</p>
<p>Incidentally, she doesn't cheat, and I'm surprised that a lot of vals seem to. It's probably different at other schools, but the kids that cheat here are typically the ones that don't do much (or any) homework or studying and cheat to pass, not to get straight A's. There are exceptions now and then, but not often.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian was a cheater. She went to NYU DUS lol.</p>
<p>we dont have valedictorians at our school.. i think for this reason. but we also dont have prom queen. so maybe they just dont like people being special ...</p>
<p>At my school, we have a set of valedictorians, and those usually tend to be the ones that have the best work ethic. Generally, they take a typical set of honors classes and do really well in them.</p>
<p>The really smart people at my school usually get a few dents in their grades due to harder course loads, and they usually fall into the set of salutatorians.</p>
<p>My school's Valedictorian is the smartest person in the school....and he's good looking too.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>@ You'llsee...</p>
<p>Is it you???
=)</p>
<p>Well, I'm salutatorian currently, so of course I think that the girl who's number 1 right now isn't the smartest in our class. She cheats, blatantly, and even tried cheating off of MY physics test. She's dumb. We had different forms. DUrrhlw. It was a scantron test, so she was just sitting there bubbling in the same answers as me when I noticed and looked over. "We have different forms, moron," I whispered. She's like "huhhh? Why are you telling me that?" i'm like "stop cheating." and i got up and went to sit in the back of the classroom. As I walked away, I happened to notice her furiously erasing all of "her" answers. Come on. And everyone knows I suck at physics anyway!</p>
<p>She has no extracurriculars I think [oh wait, maybe NHS! XD], and studies all the time. It seems to me if you have to study that hard to get good grades, you're not as smart as people who don't study at all and get virtually the same grades as you. She got a 1960 on the SAT after studying for months and months. I took it cold and got a 2300.</p>
<p>Yeah we have a rivalry..</p>
<p>Nope. She's failed most of the AP tests and scores just average on the SAT.</p>
<p>@ MetdethGNR</p>
<p>yes...:)</p>
<p>Was i that obvious?</p>
<p>Our valedictorian this year, rank "#1", is probably not the smartest. I really doubt being val = smartest. But either way, hilarious how #1~7 is going to Berkeley and #8/#9 to Stanford, #10 to Yale. Rofl.</p>
<p>you all know they're not.
'valedictorian' is a title --
and one that comes down to
usually multiple people.</p>
<p>I'm probably tied for smartest in my school with my best friend. I don't know his rank (it was up there, though), I was salutatorian. We're both significantly smarter than the valedictorian.</p>
<p>Nope, our val is the one that works the hardest.</p>