Co-Valedictorians a stupid idea.

anovice
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:00:25 +0000

I agree that rank is really stupid… I know that the top five kids have within .001 point of eachother- me being one of them. For junior year I was one because I had two extra weighted “electives” (extra core classes) but then I dropped because I ended up with a B as a final grade for the year. I know alot of kids who take their classes based on what will make their GPA the highest… it’s extremely ignorant but I’ll admit that I have done it. As for using unweighted grades- that is dumb! I know kids who have gotten straight A’s in Alevel(lowest level) classes… if you can get straight A’s in all of your courses then you aren’t challenging yourself and you don’t deserve to be #1 next to a kid who has taken all AP and gotten all A’s and one B.

Last year we had a three way tie for #2 and they normally go to SAT then but two of them had the same SAT and were for the most part equally involved in ECs. They ended up each getting recognition.
I am curious how other schools do it though.