<p>After matriculation, what are the top 25 universities attracting the highest numbers (percentage-wise) of high school valedictorians or salutatorians in their student bodies, considering many elite universities declaring the impressive high percentages of these number 1s or 2s admitted to their schools?</p>
<p>Probably HYPSM</p>
<p>My guess is state flagship schools get most of their states valedictorians.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely state flagships.</p>
<p>In Ohio, though, it’s the fourth-tier schools that get them.</p>
<p>Universities do report freshmen who ranked in the top 10 percent students in their high schools in their Common Datasets but not for valedictorians and/or salutatorians. However, you may find such information from your campus news. As an example, I include the following data from two elite public institutes: UNC-CH and UVA.</p>
<p>• In fall 2000, nearly 10 percent of 3420 UNC’s freshmen who were high school valedictorians or salutatorians. About 36 percent of freshmen who ranked in the top 10 students in their high schools.</p>
<p>• In fall 1999, about 215 of the 2925 UVA’s new students were class valedictorians in their high schools. Twenty-two percent of the new students were in the top 1 percent of their class. </p>
<p>Please post the aforementioned stats for your universities if available. I will compile and update the list.</p>
<p>Michigan: 28% in top 1%. no valedictorian data available.</p>
<p>Considering that not all high schools report Val, many have multiple Vals, and even then not all colleges report number of Vals, it’s tough to say. My guess would also be state flagship schools because they would probably provide the most scholarships for Vals.</p>
<p>Obviously the top schools like the Ivies and such, but also the Flagships, which have already been mentioned. Espcially the really large flagships, like Texas, Michigan, Florida, UC-B, UCLA, North Carolina, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Georgia, etc.</p>
<p>Speaking of Georgia, just the latest numbers: for the fall 2009 entering class, more than 230 were either valedictorian or sal. That’s almost 5% of the class.</p>
<p>Among 1,350 spots in William & MaryÂ’s class of 2011, 77 were high school valedictorians and 33 salutatorians.</p>
<p>Among 1,080 spots in DartmouthÂ’s class of 2011, about 335 (31.5%) were high school valedictorians and 114 (10.6%) salutatorians.</p>
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<p>Who cares? Valedictorian status means almost nothing. There are thousands upon thousands of HSs in the country, and every one has a valedictorian. There are only a small handful of truly excellent or “competitive” HS’s, where being towards the top means anything.</p>
<p>If valedictorian status means nothing, why those elite universities opt to spending efforts tracking it? After all, such status is the results of four years hard work. You’re right about the fact that the academic strength (competitiveness) of those thousands of schools may vary from one to the others. That’s why Ecs, ACT, SAT, SATII, IBs, etc… come into play besides GPAs. Don’t underestimate the brain power of these elite universities’ admission officers. They know your ”District” as much as your local real estate agents since they keep track of the alumni’s performance of your district years in and years out. And they know which “Districts’” number 1s are very good and which are not so good?</p>
<p>My guess is actually Dartmouth. They really like their vals and sals.</p>
<p>At Ohio State, 93% couldn’t spell “valedictorian.”</p>
<p>While I think the stat is stupid, at Brown, 155 vals, 59 sals, 505 in top 10%, but most importantly, 973 from schools that did not supply a rank.</p>
<p>That’s out of a class of about 1600. More interestingly, only 2% of students not in the top 10% (when rank is reported) got in.</p>
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You’re a Wolverine aren’t you?</p>
<p>Schmaltz, it’s alright.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in another post on this thread, we don’t send them there, anyways. We send them to the fourth-tiers with free tuition and they live at home. Not the greatest way to spend the best four years of your life IMO, but whatever. If I would have obtained 2 points higher on the PSAT, I could have done the same thing. And I got the highest score in my school.</p>
<p>In fall 2005, about 199 of the 6504 GeorgetownÂ’s new students were class valedictorians in their high schools. 43 were National Merit Scholars, 47 were class presidents, and 202 were student government officers in their high schools.</p>
<p>“Of the 6,122 members of the 2006 freshman class, 290 had been named valedictorian of their high school’s graduating class.”</p>
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<p>So, that’s ~ 4.74%, should be higher for the '09 class!</p>
<p>Go Bucks!~ :)</p>