<p>@rundmc</p>
<p>Trust me, we have to be worse. These are our past valedictorians. Also, we’re in California and in my graduating class of 300 students, we sent 5 students to a UC. 5! Hardly any more went to a CSU and same with privates. Too many kids at my school settle for community college.</p>
<p>2010: UC Berkeley
2009: UC Davis
2008: BYU
2007: UC Davis
2006: Loyola Marymount</p>
<p>2010 Val: Accepted at Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Northwestern, Wesleyan; waitlisted at Wash U-St. L; rejected at Stanford - attending Duke
2010 Sal: Attending Univ of Notre Dame
2009 Val: Attending Bowdoin
2009 Sal: Attending UConn</p>
<p>2010 val: rutgers. Sal: rutgers lol
2009: val: cornell sal: UPENN LOL
2008: val: rutgers lol Sal: UPENN and third ranked person went to Yale. That was the first time we had a Yalie EVER
2007: val and sal both went to georgetown</p>
<p>2008: ohio state
2009: ohio state
2010: ohio state</p>
<p>…yeah. the people who ended up attending more prestigious schools were ranked lower.</p>
<p>2010: MIT (also in at Princeton, Cornell, Caltech, UCLA with big merit scholarship)
2009: UBC, not sure if he applied to any US school at all</p>
<p>Damn are all of your guys’ schools that good to be producing valedictorians that get into HYP across the board??? that’s crazyy…our school is **** compared to that.</p>
<p>At my school, being valedictorian is kind of a joke, because anybody who has a 4.0 UW GPA is val, so you could take all slacker classes and become val or take super hard classes and get an 89.9 and not be val. That being said, a majority of the vals do take hard classes and work their butts off to earn the status. </p>
<p>For the class of 2010, they had around 30-35 valedictorians. Several of them are going to USC. My friend is going to UPenn. Our school president, in addition to being valedictorian, played three varsity sports, and had a 2400 SAT, and he got rejected from Stanford, and is attending UC Berkeley (as an underclassmen, this worries me). All three of the students who are Harvard '14 were vals, and two of them also got into YPS, UCB, UChi, etc. </p>
<p>But most of our graduates who are now attending Ivies were not valedictorians, which gives me hope. Then again, our class of 2010 was pretty crazy…</p>
<p>Last year, the Valedictorian went to Cornell or Dartmouth, I can’t remember. Dartmouth, I think, since I probably have Cornell in my head because the AP Chem teacher left to be a professor there this year.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s a big deal for my school of 2000 or so. The best students usually go to the University of Florida (Honors). Last year, another student got into Duke. So those two, and a neighbor who got into MIT but went to UF for money are all that I can think of. And graduating classes are 400-500 (though mine is dropping, already at 399). There are obviously some I don’t know, but most students go to the local community turned “state” (but still community, with open admissions and only three 4-year degrees) college or a non-flagship state university.</p>
<p>I live in an area that’s pretty well off, but not ridiculously rich (I am not well off, though), so most top students fall between “too much for financial aid” and “too little to pay in full”, so people like my friend who took 12 AP exams (11 5s, 1 4) and had great everything still go to UF Honors. Also, engineering seems disproportionately popular among top students.</p>
<p>This year, my valedictorian got there by stealing exams, and his AP scores reflect that, so I don’t see him being the most successful. Wait, this year we’re doing no valedictorian, just ten “top students”.</p>
<p>2010: Accepted to: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Upenn, Columbia. Rejected: Harvard</p>
<p>Chose to go to Princeton.</p>
<p>2009: Accepted to: Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Upenn, Uchicago, NYU.</p>
<p>Chose to go to Stanford</p>
<p>val: brown</p>
<p>Class above me val:</p>
<p>Harvard
Dartmouth
Cornell
Washington and Lee
Duke
Brown</p>
<p>Went to Harvard.</p>
<p>My class’ (senior this year) number 1 actually graduated a year early. He went to USC.</p>
<p>I believe Val/Sal chose Middlebury and Williams.</p>
<p>Last year’s valedictorian at my school didn’t get accepted anywhere because she didn’t apply anywhere. Doing a gap year abroad.</p>
<p>Val.-Stanford ED (legacy)
Sal.-Georgetown</p>
<p>Last Year:
Val: Georgetown
Sal: William & Mary</p>
<p>wow, the vals and sals get accepted at some amazing schools… the students at my school get into good colleges, but never really to harvard or yale… one or two to princeton and stanford though.</p>
<p>as far as i can remember, at least within the last ten years, one guy went to harvard, one guy went to stanford, and one girl went to princeton.</p>
<p>last year: top val went to UC Berkeley, along with like 7 other kids. the schools of the other vals were were Harvey Mudd, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCR, etc. that’s about it. this year will be exciting, we have one of the smartest kids in years and he’s a CalTech contender. hell, his last name is Newton.</p>
<p>Val: BU
Whats odd however is that about 10% of my grade are going to ivy’s but the val isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>Though this info is 15+ years old from my urban public magnet high school:</p>
<p>Val ended up at Harvard. </p>
<p>Salutatorian ended up at MIT. Ended up graduating near the top of his MIT graduating class with a bachelors and Masters in EE. </p>
<p>About 25% of my graduating class ended up going to an Ivy.</p>
<p>My school had about 15 valedictorians last year, but the guy ranked at the top of the class got into (never got a rejection letter):</p>
<p>Stanford (EA)
Harvard
Berkely
USC
Yale
CalTech
MIT
Penn</p>
<p>chose Stanford</p>
<p>the second ranked guy got into:</p>
<p>Penn
USC</p>
<p>and got rejected by:</p>
<p>MIT
Harvard
Yale</p>
<p>Chose Penn</p>