<p>Not to belabor this point, but really, secret asian man, you do not get accepted ‘to’ a school. I’m sort of a grammar geek (!); also I teach AP Lang and Lit. You get accepted ‘into’ a school. Perhaps when you yourself speak informally, among your own friends, you say, “I got accepted to Princeton.” But that is not correct. You can hear this most when you write a convoluted sentence as above: “To which school…get accepted?” By preposition, I mean that the person posting the original title obviously was attempting to use ‘to’ as a preposition, and was afraid to split it, so he/she wrote the convoluted, “To which school…get accepted?” rather than the perfectly fine and much more natural, “Which school did your V get accepted INTO?” (not “to”). Also, of course I realize this is mostly high schoolers. And that’s great that you’re having this discussion. Probably my tone was off and I apologize. I am trying to understand what school culture it is that obsesses so much about Valedictorians? In the school I teach in (In the school in which I teach…), it would be unheard of to worry about where the V’s are going to the exclusion of others. It’s just not important. People go where they think is most important for them to go. I mean, bully for the Valedictorians, and that’s great, but what is this mad race to be ‘number one’?</p>
<p>hoveringmom-I don’t think the point is to emphasize a craze over vals and sals. There is a difference in rank 1/2 than say 3 and on, and rank 1 or 2 alone stands out in admissions, which is the aspect of what rank (among other things I am sure) got acceptance. #3 is good, but #2 and 1 are recognized and essentially better. One could argue your same point in a thread based on SAT scores- what a perfect score would get someone into (even though an imperfect score could still be considered good). This thread is not taken as seriously as you perceive it. I doubt a percentage of these posts drool over their vals and sals, but they can point them out, just like one could point out where that kid with a perfect score got into, or that kid with 25 EC’s.</p>
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in my school, everyone asks each other whether they are going. It’s not paying special attention to the val/sal. I have several classes with them and so I know about them as well as my other classmates. It’s not “to the exclusion of others.” Well that’s just my school because my grade is really small</p>
<p>also, I guess for people in larger schools, if someone random tells you “oh I’m going to trinity next year” and if your val tells you he is going to stanford next year, you are more likely to remember the latter</p>
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<p>if you’re going to get on everyone about grammar…
that’s not really a question</p>
<p>–back on topic–</p>
<p>so yeah, swarthmore, princeton, and brown… & our school doesn’t rank but pretty much everyone finds out who the valedictorian is i think.</p>
<p>Err…WPI. Maybe Brown.</p>
<p>We have a very non-competitive school. Not many of us go to 4-year college.</p>
<p>Sorry, Hoveringmom, but there is some pretty poor writing here too:</p>
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<p>Our Validictorian last year applied to many schools, but ultimately she decided to go to UCF. </p>
<p>~ Theos</p>
<p>2008 - University of Georgia (also accepted to GA Tech)
2007 - Brigham Young Univ. (Mormon)
2005 - Mercer Univ. (presumably on full scholarship)</p>
<p>Given my school’s track record, I don’t particularly have high hopes for myself as this year’s valedictorian. Dunno why I applied to Columbia and Princeton, but at least I got into UGA and UChicago! Most probably got into Emory as well, but yeah.</p>
<p>Our Val got into MIT and got a likely from Columbia so far.</p>
<p>Ours got accepted ED to Columbia.</p>
<p>Were were talking online while counting down the last ten minutes to find out our acceptances. I got into Brown.</p>
<p>I’m a val and so far i got into these:
Michigan, BC, Illinois, Wisc, and NYU</p>
<p>IDK anything about this year, but last year the Val ended up going to South Seattle Community College.</p>
<p>So far he’s been accepted everywhere:</p>
<p>GA Tech
Univ. of Florida
UMN - Twin Cities
Purdue University</p>
<p>…waiting on Cornell :)</p>
<p>2008 - Stanford, Yale, Brown, Duke, basically everywhere. Chose Stanford.
2007 - Chose Harvard
2006 - Chose Princeton</p>
<p>But being valedictorian at my school doesn’t mean anything. Students in the top 5 to 10 % all go to competitive schools. About 40 students are admitted (don’t necessarily attend) to the ivies…</p>
<p>and then there’s me :(</p>
<p>wow u have a nice HS there…
don’t worry i’m sure u’ll get in some place good!</p>
<p>i hope so…
side note: i go to boarding school which explains the stats.</p>
<p>hooveringmom: “accepted to” vs “accepted into”</p>
<p>I found 2 examples:
[Emma</a> Watson Accepted Into Yale University - iCelebZ.com](<a href=“http://www.icelebz.com/gossips/emma_watson_accepted_into_yale_university/]Emma”>http://www.icelebz.com/gossips/emma_watson_accepted_into_yale_university/)</p>
<p>[Emma</a> Watson Accepted To Yale And Cambridge - Starpulse Entertainment News Blog](<a href=“http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/03/02/emma_watson_accepted_to_yale_and_cambrid]Emma”>http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/03/02/emma_watson_accepted_to_yale_and_cambrid)</p>
<p>Could you give some more explanation about the usage of these two?</p>
<p>And another form: “accepted at” in “What does it take to get accepted at Stanford or Harvard?”</p>
<p><a href=“http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_it_take_to_get_accepted_at_Stanford_or_Harvard[/url]”>http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_it_take_to_get_accepted_at_Stanford_or_Harvard</a></p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>2004: V- Stanford,
2005: V-Stanford, S-Cornell
2006: V- Princeton, S- Princeton
2007: V-(international so went to a local university), S-Penn’s Wharton
2008: V- Brown University, S-Georgetown</p>
<p>this year, northern arizona university.</p>
<p>last year, arizona state university.</p>
<p>and the year before that, university of arizona.</p>
<p>i guess not many really leave the state from my school.</p>
<p>ED to cornell</p>