gabby1116

Do senior year grades count? It can't be full year, because it would have to be chosen before the end of the year.

redsox2002

Well our school chooses our valedictorian at the Awards ceremony at the end of the year. Maybe it's different in your school, but senior grades do count and are taken into consideration when deciding.

gabby1116

Thank you.

Gryffon5147

Our school counts seven semesters only, and not the last semester. Thank God or they would have counted my Calculus grades lol....

BuddyMcAwesome

our school finishes seniors year a week early and then grades their stuff quickly.

silverturtle

Ours is decided after the last semester has ended.

Wigwam

Our last semester counts. There's a short gap between the end of school and graduation, so they can determine who had the best eighth-semester grades. It doesn't count for anything besides that, though, because scholarships and everything are already determined.

HiPeople

We don't have valedictorian anymore, but when we did, every grade from every semester counted.

Wigwam

^Who speaks at graduation then, HiPeople?

gpowsang

The system varies from school to school

stephennn

my school only counts 7 semesters when determining rank.

it wouldn't have made a difference if they used the 8th semester at my school, everyone slacked off equally.

fairy_dreams

We don't have a val/sal either. So random people just spoke at grad.

AUGirl

At my school, I think they use 3/4 of your senior year grades... because most seniors have finished up their classes somewhere in the 4th quarter. (IE: Seniors taking AP exams... which is most- they don't do anything after the AP exam)

So using the 4th q doesn't really make a difference anyways.

generallyrong

Ditto on no vals, speech is auditioned.

verbosely

^ same as generallyrong at my school.