Like did she leave UPitt and transfer to Brown? @coterie
Something that I have seen several times recently are kids in the top X or Y% of a class going to different ranked colleges. Some going to Ivies. Others going to state flagship. Others somewhere in between. Numerous reasons for that. Sometimes its a matter of staying close to home. Other times its a matter of money. Some families have ability to pay for more expensive schools. Others do not. Sometimes its cheaper for some families to send kid to Ivy than it is state flagship. Or at least the cost difference is very small. For others its a fully pay private versus state flagship cost difference.
Yeah, I have seen that too! @saillakeerie
@writer80 She unfortunately was never accepted into Brown.
@writer80 I know, the “(what?!!)” was more of a shock type reaction because JHU’s BME program is really darn hard to get into.
What do you mean? @roboticsnerd33
@writer80 The fact that he got into Johns Hopkins University’s BME program was shocking, because it is SO hard to get into, no matter how smart you are. That’s why I said “(what?!!)”.
Ours went to Northwestern.
2016 Vals (17 tied): 8 UT, 3 A&M, 2 Rice, 1 UVA, 1 Dartmouth, 1 UPenn, & 1 Yale
2016 Sals (8 tied): 3 UT, 2 Rice, 1 A&M, 1 BYU, & 1 UoC at Boulder
2016 Notables: 1 Harvard, 1 Northwestern, another Yale, 2 Duke, 2 Vandy, another UPenn, and UC Berkley
@Gh0st3737 how big is your school???
@addalinemore haha only about 650-750 per grade, but it’s pretty competitive. Vals made straight As and Sals made one B (+ - aren’t factored in).
Thats a big community!!! @Gh0st3737
Val: Boston College with Presidential Scholarship, Sal: Brown the next four all went to Harvard
At my daughter’s school, the Val went to University of FL (state flagship). Since 2014, National Merit Finalists in FL can go to any state school for free (total cost of attendance, including travel, books, etc). Seeing the list of Vals and Sals at other state high schools, it seems like about 1/2 of the top 2 in each high school attend a FL state school, most of them going to UF. It’s a great deal for FL students. Sal went to Univ. of VA. Vals from the prior two years went to Duke.
UVA…
My school of around 30 seniors per graduating class:
Class of 2016 valedictorian went to Virginia Tech and salutatorian went to University of Portland.
Nice! @hhjjlala
Brigham Young, ECU, and Chapel Hill in the past couple of years
UPenn. Lucky man. Salutatorian’s going to Princeton. Also lucky.
Seeing a new post on this got me to look them up—so, from my high school class in Maryland nearly 30 years ago:
[ul][]Valedictorian: Went to Carleton, got a doctorate at Wisconsin, and is now faculty at Minnesota
[]Salutatorian: Went to Florida Southern, is now a music teacher at a relatively expensive Catholic private K–8 school
[*]The one who would have been salutatorian if the school hadn’t messed with the numbers to give it to someone else: Went to Kent State, then went into a banking management position of some sort; since she both shares a very famous name and is private enough in her Facebook posts that I think I maybe know the state she lives in and nothing else, I don’t know what she now does for a living[/ul]