Idk but I assume that it would be UNC-Chapel Hill since most top students from my school go there.
Private school Utah…culture more representative of country…no valedictorian or salutatorian has gone to BYU or UTAH… Last 5 years Vassar, UCLA x 2, Johns Hopkins, USC, Yale, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, USNA.
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I’m going to push back against the idea that any school that has sent even its highest-ranked students mostly to highly selective colleges is “more representative of [the] country”. The vast majority of college-bound seniors, even high-achieving ones, go to public colleges, and I’m not talking about the “public ivy” sorts here.
Remember, the norms on College Confidential are most emphatically not the norms in the country as a whole.
@SLCMom - Our kids attended HS in Utah too, but in a different county (and different culture) than yours.
Typically val’s and sal’s have been going to Ivy’s and Stanford.
Park City HS.
Valedictorian Johns Hopkins
Co-Valedictorian Stanford
Salutatorian Rice
Co-Salutatorian Yale
Valedictorian and salutatorians have very limited value in schools of my area. Often #1 are ones willing to sacrifice low weighted art courses and play GPA game. Often really intelligent and balanced students don’t focus on GPA gaming.
One school in our area has high rigor and making top 10% is difficult and while school in next district is nowhere near as good and many gamers transfer there to become Val/Sal or 1%. School B’s val is unlikely to make even top 5% in school A.
Unless students are qualified for need based help, top colleges are often too expensive for high EFC families.
Valedictorian in 2018 went to Cal Tech for engineering
Valedictorian in 2019 is going to USC full ride
2018 Valedictorian - Yale, Salutatorian - U of Chicago
2019 Both to Stanford
Both Val and Sal this year are going to GA Tech. Their dating so it’s not suprising they both ended up choosing the same school. Most of the high stats kids end up at Tech or UGA. Hope is hard to beat. We a few Bama and Bama huntville. I know of 1 Duke and 1 Standford. And for the very 1st time we have one going to Julliard.
This year the Val is going to Harvard and the Sal is going to YU. I think we have 1 Penn, 2 Barnard, 1 NYU and 1 Berkeley.
Our “competing” school, however, had insane acceptances this year. Their Val is going to UCLA and their Sal is going to Princeton. They also have another Princetonian, 3 other Bruins, 1 Harvard, 1 Stanford, 1 Uchicago, and 1 Brown.
Sister and brother were Vals. One to U of Kentucky (full ride), other to UCLA.
This year’s Val is going to USC, but Salutatorian is going to Stanford.
University of Tennessee - Knoxville (in state) as have most have over the past years.
Harvard
valedictorian, co-valedictorian, salutatorian are all going to UC Berkeley.
2019 - Northeastern
2018 - McGill
2017 - Brown
2016 - UMass Lowell (One of the top 10 got into EVERY ivy school, but not MIT)
2015 - Colby
2012 - Wash U St. Louis
Large public school in New Hampshire btw
DD’s school doesn’t do val/sal but based on weighted GPA, she is ranked #1 and is going to Rice. #2 is going to Wash U and #3 is going to MIT.
This year’s graduating class at my D19’s school:
[ul][]Valedictorian: University of Alaska Anchorage (music major, following that sweet, sweet full-ride money)
[]Co-salutatorian: Whitman College (to pursue something in the life sciences)
[li]Co-salutatorian: University of Alaska Fairbanks (engineering)[/ul][/li]Students from her school have a tradition of taking money over prestige, basically.
2018
Valedictorian: Washington University in St. Louis
Salutatorians: Columbia and US Naval Academy
S19’s mid size public school in SE VA (~350 in class):
2019 Co-val - Ga Tech (my S19)
2019 Co-val - William & Mary (no sal named)
2018 Val - Harvard
2018 Sal - West Point
My daughter’s school honors the top 10, and this year is highly unusual in that there are five 4.0 UW students. My daughter, one of the 4.0s, is attending Columbia University.
Val went to UCB, Sal to UCLA, someone else down the list went to Harvard. Lots of UCBs in the top 20, a Stanford, a couple Harvey Mudds. My school wasn’t seen as competitive compared to others in my district, but we had a ton of stars my year.
As for me, I went to community college 