<p>I live near a community college. I was just thinking about how someone can overtake me if they took like 8 really easy college classes that count for 5.0s…</p>
<p>Does anyone at your school do this? Maybe I’ll prevent it from happening by doing it before them…</p>
<p>There are a few students who have done that at my school, yes. IB/APs are worth more but there are definitely “easy” IB/AP classes. Freshman/sophomore courses at the nearby college don’t count for much at my school so students looking to play the system don’t take classes there.</p>
<p>Don’t do it - keep it clean. Valedictorian isn’t as important as people make it out to be.</p>
<p>Yes, people do it.</p>
<p>They take required classes like PE and Health over the summer (often online) as Pass-Fail grades, so that they don’t bring the weighted GPA down, etc.</p>
<p>^
Ha ha, I’m doing that too…</p>
<p>ONLINE PE AT BYU! Heck yes!</p>
<p>^^Darn. I took Health online and got a grade for it. I worked pretty hard for it too :[</p>
<p>^
Did it count for a 5?</p>
<p>Probably not. I don’t really keep track of my weighted GPA.</p>
<p>Online PE? You guys gotta be kidding me.</p>
<p>Being valedictorian isn’t particularly important. I wouldn’t worry about it. Universities are going to see a very high GPA regardless of whether one person surpassed it or not.</p>
<p>“They take required classes like PE and Health over the summer (often online) as Pass-Fail grades, so that they don’t bring the weighted GPA down, etc.”</p>
<p>This. I personally think people should not be allowed to do this. At least in my state, those are high school requirements and EVERYONE can fit them in their schedules. If you don’t finish them, you shouldn’t graduate. People only take PE or art req outside of HS so it doesn’t go into their GPAs and honestly, that’s just a cheap way to get val…</p>
<p>In some rare cases, a person really can’t fit in PE or an art req but that’s just poor planning…</p>
<p>online PE and health are graded classes at my school (meaning if you get a C it affects your GPA) - so i guess I’m lucky</p>
<p>…and this is the reason why colleges consider the transcript (courses and grades) more important than rank. Chill. If someone really wants to play the game, let them. Maybe it’ll work out like it ought to, and the val ends up screwed over because the time it took them to plan out how to game the system will suck the life out of the rest of their appliation (ECs, essays). More likely, you’ll both end up at decent colleges, and you’ll just have to deal with not giving that speech at graduation</p>
<p>… Online PE? That’s a joke. I took PE over the summer so I wouldn’t have to swim during the school year. Lol. And lots of kids take Health over the summer, but they’re both eltter-grade classes.</p>