Anyone get accepted over valedictorian?

MSauce
Fri, 21 May 2010 17:27:35 +0000

I would hate it if our teachers chose the Valedictorian. That seems like the worst possible way to do it.

At my school, everyone with a 4.0, regardless of difficulty of classes, is a Valedictorian. This year, we had 12 (usually its more like 6). But then they have to pick the two top students in the class to get a $9,000 scholarship to Wisconsin Colleges. They just do that straight-up by ACT scores, and if any student doesn’t go to school in Wisconsin (like me) they pick the next best ACT score for the scholarship.

I feel like this is the best way for a non-prestigious school to do it, and while it might not work at a larger school, it works great at mine.