How do you become valedictorian?

fizix
Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:28:24 +0000

To become valedictorian at my school you have to:
(1) take lots of spring/summer college courses, but only the ones that are given AP weighting. Meaning it’s ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY that you take Nanotechnology and Inventive Problem Solving (which is a joke), but if you feel like taking Abstract Algebra or Number Theory you should hide it from your guidance counselors, otherwise it’ll be Honors and bring down your weighted GPA.
(2) be in the hardest track in our school, which culminates in DiffEq and Matrix Theory senior year.
(3) know the Frobenius method, and solve Bessel equations near the speed of light. As you will know from three years of physics, this will cause your hands to feel very heavy, but you should be used to this by now from taking notes in your IB history classes.
(4) get all As in everything.

That being said, it is possible to evade the first requirement if you somehow get to take an AP class or two freshman year, which people usually aren’t allowed to do. My friend took AP Art freshman year and was #2 for a while, but fell out of the running when she got a B in physics.