<p>Just found out that the top 3 students to graduate in D’s senior class are all GIRLS!!! </p>
<p>I think it is a first for the school. So far as I can remember, they have never had a val and sal who were both girls.</p>
<p>WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!</p>
<p>GO GIRLS!!!</p>
<p>:D 
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<p>Girls Rule! As of the end of Jr. year, the top 20 kids in D’s class (of 575 kids) was something like 5 guys and 15 girls. I think a few more may have moved up, but I believe the top 4 are still all girls. But, of course!!!</p>
<p>The top students in my class were overwhelmingly female. There were two strong boys, and the rest of the strongest students were all girls. My sister’s class, two years my senior at the same school, was the exact reverse.</p>
<p>This thread prompted my mom and me to haul out our and my brother’s yearbooks (we attend/attended the same high school) and count how many girls vs. guys were in each class’ “Top Ten academic” photo. In both the yearbooks from the 1970s and those from the 2000s, there wasn’t a single Top Ten that was less than 70% female. In 2003 it was 100% girls. This year there are 8 girls, 2 guys. Girls have also consistently constituted the vast majority of our school’s National Honor Society. (Actually I kind of feel sorry for the guys. Why don’t they achieve like we do??? 
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<p>At my D’s school (prestigious parochial of 2,000+) for the past 5 years, 7 out of the top 10 have been girls. Normally, both the val and sal are girls. In fact, I think 2 years ago, all but one of the top 10 were girls.</p>
<p>Every Nobel Prize winner in 2006 was male. Hmm…</p>
<p>Given the rather sorry state of boys in education these days, I think a celebration would be in order if the top 3 kids were males not females!</p>
<p>^^Good point, weenie! Our local newspaper just ran a front page article about the significant dropout rate for boys and the repercussions of it.</p>
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<p>WashDad, I think you will be sadly ignored in this sexist thread.</p>
<p>Wait, I think there is a point to WashDad’s post. Sure, the top students in high school are girls. But if all the Nobel Prize winners are men, is this not just another glass ceiling?</p>
<p>As a girl who grew up, I am glad.
As a mother of a girl, I am not surprised. We see the same thing.
As a mother of a boy, I shake my head. Why don’t most boys like school as much as the girls?</p>
<p>In S’s grad. class, the top ten consist of 4 boys and 6 girls. Boys were #'s 2,6 (my S),9, 10. </p>
<p>In this case the Val. girl beat out Sal. boy because she took a couple more weighted AP’s. Both made A’s in everything. Val. girl was very hardworker determined to be #1. Sal. boy by all accounts was genius smart slacker. S was in AP calc. with him. Said he slept thru most classes and still made A’s on everything. He out scored Val. girl by 150 points on SAT. He wasn’t much into the competition thing and was content to do well in what he liked. S was much the same. He prob. could have had a higher rank if he had put forth any effort but he was content with doing good enough and “having a life” (his words, not mine). </p>
<p>In S2’s class, the top student is a boy (type A, very driven), but after that it’s pretty girl heavy.</p>
<p>Most boys aren’t willing to “play the school game”. They are less likely to ask for extra-credit assignments, to work for those extra points, to make their projects aesthetically pleasing…etc. etc.</p>
<p>^ Especially the “…etc. etc.” part. :)</p>
<p>I have to say though, some of the absolute worst grade grubbers I’ve known are boys.</p>
<p>Girls = awesome</p>
<p>^just felt like stating the obvious lol</p>
<p>Ah college…the great equalizer.</p>
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Actually, I was talking with a couple of girls I know the other day, and we’ve all noticed that in humanities classes guys are much more easily assumed to be intelligent. We felt that girls needed to prove themselves a little more. We thought that it may be that girls present more of their non-academic side more often and more easily than many of the guys.</p>
<p>By the way, I liked WashDad’s post about all the Nobel Prize winners in 2006 being male. With girls achieving at higher and higher levels in high school/college these days, that male-dominated world of academia is bound to change. WashDad’s post just shows the generation gap in male/female higher education.</p>