Is being valedictorian important?

[sherpa]

@micmatt513 - Admissions officers don’t really care about rank as long as you’re in the top 10%. That’s the only metric that counts for USNWR.

I disagree. At our local public HS, the top 1-2% regularly are accepted to Ivies, Stanford, Duke, MIT, CalTech, etc. Top 3-10%, different results.