<p>the end of 3rd marking period? or after finals...a week before graduation?
my school does it the latter way and is this a common way to do it? o_O
I might be vale and I need to know now bec it takes me a while to prepare a speech!</p>
<p>I don’t know.</p>
<p>I don’t know for sure who our val is. I don’t know if we even have a sal.</p>
<p>Graduation is next Friday. There are rumors of who our val is, but I don’t actually know for sure who it is. They never like announced it or anything.</p>
<p>lol i think it’s usually announced pretty late like a week or so before-- right after finals.
just if you think you’re going to be val/sal start prepariing your suit now.</p>
<p>yeah, just about end of 3rd marking period i should say.</p>
<p>For seniors their GPA’s freeze right after the 5th six weeks and senior class ranks are released shortly afterward. This year our senior val (who I think has been valedictorian since freshman year) was passed by the salutatorian so he’s now number two. Apparently the guy who was in second literally charted out everything he had to do to beat the val. it kind of sucks for the first guy though because he lost his entire full ride scholarship.</p>
<p>^He lost it for moving to number two?</p>
<p>That’s awful. What school did that?</p>
<p>It was UT but I think its a statewide policy that the valedictorian from every public Texas high school gets a free ride to any public Texas university. It just sucks because if he wasn’t supposed to get the full ride he probably would have went to a better college possibly an Ivy but now its too late.</p>
<p>^whoa that does suck…a lot</p>
<p>At the end of the third marking period.</p>
<p>My graduation was on a Monday. I was told privately the Tuesday before, and I had to have the speech done by Thursday for school officials to look over. The official announcement was made at the awards ceremony on Friday.</p>
<p>If you think you have a good shot, it’s probably a good idea to at least think about what you want to say, especially if you otherwise won’t have much time.</p>
<p>I was notified in the first week of May, which I guess is reasonable time to write the speech</p>
<p>^^^^ And the best thing about the whole arrangement is the top ten ranked students have a luncheon that they have to go to so he has to sit there and eat with the guy who took his spot Plus at graduation they’re stuck sitting next to each other.</p>
<p>Well he knew that he had to keep his spot, it’s not like the guy cheated or anything</p>
<p>It’s still a dick move.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s anything wrong with trying to get a scholarship yourself. The problem is that giving the valedictorian a full ride vs. nothing for the salutatorian is totally disproportionate, plus deciding who gets the scholarship after the college decision deadline is unfair to the students involved.</p>
<p>^^ Yeah well he beat him by a hundredth of a point</p>
<p>Wow…Our school decides after the first semester (2nd marking period).</p>
<p>I think my school calculates the Valedictorian after school is over.</p>
<p>Our principal made an announcement sometime in late March (the rank list is closed after first semester of senior year). My guidance counselor called me down to congratulate me a week or so earlier. I think the sal’s and essayist’s counselors did the same.</p>
<p>Woahh our Val/Sal is announced in November.</p>