<p><< #1 class rank is so overrated. valedictorian means nothing>>></p>
<p>Agreed. Everyone in the top 10 is basically valedictorian material, but there can only be 1 #1 right? This isn’t a chess tournament where getting 1st place means you clearly outperformed that guy who ended up at #10.</p>
<p>We have three in the running at this moment (and I’m still a Senior) and one of my good friends is one of those people. I believe she is going to Cornell, but she got accepted into SIXTEEN colleges. Applied and visited all of them, Honors program interviews with a few. She is pretty crazy for doing it, but she’s going to be an amazing doctor one day.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian, I believe, is going to Harvard. However, she got in to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and MIT.</p>
<p>yeah…</p>
<p>The years that I remember :</p>
<p>Cooper Union
Harvard
CUNY Queens
MIT</p>
<p>"<< #1 class rank is so overrated. valedictorian means nothing>>></p>
<p>Agreed. Everyone in the top 10 is basically valedictorian material, but there can only be 1 #1 right? This isn’t a chess tournament where getting 1st place means you clearly outperformed that guy who ended up at #10."</p>
<p>That’s the whole point of a competition and at a tough school with less grade inflation someone can pull away with a clear lead. Sure, someone can get lucky and win with a close margin but on average the best student will win. Everyone in the top 10 is top 10 material but usually only one person is valedictorian material. There may be a big difference and there may be a small difference between top 10 material and valedictorian material but don’t confuse being close with being there.</p>
<p>Mine got into Rice, Northeastern, and a few other flagships I believe. He’s going to Bentley for a full ride.</p>
<h1>2 to Cornell.</h1>
<h1>3 to MIT.</h1>
<p>Our came to america 5 years ago (hispanic) had 106 GPA, took all ap’s and got accepted to and had full rides to Harvard, Princeton,Yale,MIT,Stanford, and Columiba. He enrolled in Yale :)</p>
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<p>That is a marvelous over-generalization</p>
<p>Got accepted to Brown, Cornell (Partial Scholarship), UNC, Wake Forest, and Duke </p>
<p>He will be attending Duke with a full-ride</p>
<p>Valedictorians are supremely overrated. GPA means jack squat in relation to intelligence.</p>
<p>^Hence your username?</p>
<p>No class rank, no valedictorian system, nada- Everyone knows who the top 2-3 are, though, so I’ll do top 2:</p>
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<li>WLed by H, rejected YP, going to Columbia (I think he’s quite happy but people here are shocked, believe me (ridiculously competitive school))</li>
<li>Early to Yale, don’t think she applied anywhere else</li>
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<p>Well, I’m the Valedictorian and it didn’t get me far. Got rejected from Princeton and Brown, waitlisted at Penn, and attending Carnegie Mellon. My high school has never had a graduate go to an ivy league. Oh well, can’t say I didn’t try.</p>
<p>^Turning your nose up at a world-class university is very unbecoming of you.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian got rejected from Harvard,brown,yale,columbia,and MIT. She was a psycho and concentrated a little too much on schoolwork (she had like a 107 gpa) but a low sat ( i think from 2030-2050 somewhere around that). Also she basically had no significant extracurriculars and that was her downfall imo. shes going to NYU.</p>
<p>sal got into barnard college
rank 3 got into cooper union
rank 5 got into yale</p>
<p>Valedictorian accepted into Harvard, Princeton, Yale.</p>
<p>Going to Harvard.</p>
<p>Princeton, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Swarthmore, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Smith, Barnard, all other UC’s, etc. Ultimately she chose Princeton. I wish at least one of those schools would have accepted me.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian going to Auburn</p>
<p>Our vale is probably going to Scripps. She really likes it. She also got into Barnard, Pomona, Swarthmore, and some other really great lib. arts schools.</p>
<p>Sal got rejected at his top choice, Caltech. Rejected at MIT. But will be at Carnegie Mellon (mom’s school, but where he did not want to go). Ehh he was a jerk for 4 years. He should be happy.</p>
<p>My buddy #3 is going to Stanford.</p>
<p>Of the other kids in top 10, umm Brown, probably UCLA, UChicago (I don’t think he’s in top 10 but maybe), UMichigan, and perhaps Swarthmore. I’m gonna end up at Princeton <em>not top 10 but I’m up there</em></p>
<p>Ours got accepted to MIT, Yale, and the UGA Foundation Fellows program … she’s trying to decide between the latter two!</p>