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05-15-2005, 12:23 AM
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#76 | | Senior Member
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how can u have 75 valeds? our school prevents that and only has 1 (even though the valed gets no title).
our valed is taking this prestigious scholarship to go to an in-state school
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05-15-2005, 12:27 AM
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#77 | | Senior Member
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72 valedictorians?! That is insane! That is why our school does GPAs numerically, like 102.3344. Our school does it to four decimal places, so that there will only be one valedictorian.
On another note, it seems ironic to me that the salutatorian always goes to a better school...
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05-15-2005, 12:28 AM
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#78 | | Senior Member
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shrek,
schools have a variety of GPA weighting (or non-weighting schemes) that are used to determine class rank and val/sal. My son's school does unweighted GPA and ranking - they had 12 vals last year, and will have around 10 this year. About half are on the AP/honors track and half aren't.
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05-15-2005, 12:31 AM
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#79 | | Junior Member
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He actually got rejected by his top Ivy league choices--so he went to UVA.
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05-15-2005, 12:33 AM
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#80 | | Senior Member
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is your valedictorian normally the person who goes to the "best" college? cuz at my school, it's not (although it is usually by their personal choice).
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On another note, it seems ironic to me that the salutatorian always goes to a better school...
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Our Val is going to Harvey Mudd College, turned down UCLA and USC.
Our Sal is going to UCLA, turning down UCB, USC, and Cornell.
Our #3 is going to Bowdoin.
Me, the #10, is going to Georgetown, turning down Williams, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt.
The SB President, who is going to USC, is turning down UCB and UCLA.
Each of the schools are leaders in their respective fields; the term "best" is relative.
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05-15-2005, 01:14 AM
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#81 | | Junior Member
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ours is going to ''a community college''..... yeah she got a 17 ACT!
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05-15-2005, 01:31 AM
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#82 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Texas
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O_O how does THAT happen??
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05-15-2005, 09:23 AM
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#83 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Princeton JUNCTION, New Jerz
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really bad cheating.
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05-15-2005, 09:38 AM
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#84 | | Member
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Our Valedictorian this year was a grade manipulator, so her ECs weren't great at all...
Georgia Tech
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Early Medical School Acceptance
The salutatorian was much better...
Stanford (going here)
Princeton
Wash U in St Louis
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05-15-2005, 10:31 AM
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#85 | | Junior Member
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My high school selects the valedictorian and saluditorian in a committee of all interested teachers, advisors, coaches, and administrators via unweighted GPA (for all four years), number of AP/Honors classes taken, grades in those classes, and involvement in school sponsored activities (i.e. sports and clubs).
For the first time in a decade, we have more than one valedictorian. And for the first time since anyone still has the records for (and we're talking >35 years), we have four valedictorians this year (All have a 4.000 uw GPA, same # of AP/Honors classes, and comparable ecs).
One was accepted ED to Princeton and had to withdraw his other applications prior to any decisions.
Another was accepted ED to Clairemont McKenna and had to withdraw her other applications prior to any decisions.
The third was accepted to UC Berkeley and rejected or waitlisted to all his other choices (Vanderbuilt, UCLA, CalTech, Carnegie Melon, others)
I was accepted to USC, UCSB, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Cornell. I was rejected from Stanford and Yale. I was deferred, waitlisted, and subsequently rejected to MIT. I will be attending UC Berkeley.
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05-15-2005, 11:22 AM
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#86 | | New Member
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2004~2005
Valedictorian: CalTech
Salutatorian: UC Berkeley
2003~2004:
Valedictorian: Harvard
Salutatorian: Harvard
Let me say they are all smart and hard-working (and also well-deserved) students.
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05-15-2005, 11:31 AM
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#87 | | Super Moderator
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2003-2004
Valedictorian: attending Wake Forest (full-ride), also admitted to UNC, Duke, MIT
Salutatorian: attending Duke (ED)
2004-2005
Valedictorian: will attend Duke (ED)
Salutatorian: will attend Wake Forest (almost full-ride), also admitted to UNC, Duke, Davidson, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago
An interesting pattern emerges...
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05-15-2005, 11:37 AM
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#88 | | Junior Member
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Our "valedictorian" is going to Valparaiso University. Valedictorian pretty much means nothing at my school because there is no weighted GPA for honors or AP's. Consequently, only 23 out of about 400 kids will be graduating with distinguished honors. (Our val isn't one of them) Our principal is focused on mediocrity and making things level for everyone. Anyway, I know many others going to better places NYU, 2 at Notre Dame, 1 at U Penn, a couple at Northwestern, and me at Stanford  | |
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05-15-2005, 11:44 AM
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#89 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Princeton JUNCTION, New Jerz
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damn commies. lol.
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05-15-2005, 11:59 AM
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#90 | | Member
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UPenn, Wharton... Fisher Management & Technology program (ED)
Past 3 valedictorians, all UPenn... I live in Jersey.
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