<p>@watermellen</p>
<p>Our valedictorian thought Stanford was an Ivy League school. Another girl thought Harvard was in England. Needless to say, nobody from our school got into anything close to an Ivy League school the 4 years I was there, and apparently they barely knew what they were either.</p>
<p>Top 10% - Morehead Cain @ UNC, but accepted to Yale and Princeton.
Val - NC State University
Sal - NC State University
(Our first ever senior class)</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know who’s my valedictorian, but I’m friends with one from 2008. She got in Duke and UChicago, and rejected by Harvard. Really humble girl…just not outgoing at all.</p>
<p>Holy cow. Do you guys just have really impressive valedictorians, or does being valedictorian help THAT much?</p>
<p>BYU, Alabama, UGA, Phoenix University</p>
<p>Amherst, Williams, Harvard, Princeton, Pomona, Brown</p>
<p>Dartmouth ED</p>
<p>Last year:
Val- Berkeley EECS (chose it over Penn)
Sal-MIT</p>
<p>This year’s val got into YALE EA, not sure if he’s going though. Being val in my school is pretty impressive considering that my graduating class has 1136 students.
Last year’s val is at Harvard, but probably got accepted into every other top 20 school as well.</p>
<p>two years ago- Harvard (attending), Brown, MIT, JHU, Cooper Union
last year- Stanford, Princeton, Emory (attending), Georgetown</p>
<p>Val 2009: Columbia</p>
<p>Val 2010: Amherst</p>
<p>Val 2011: UPenn (that’s me!)</p>
<p>Stanford, but i’m not sure if she will attend</p>
<p>Haha, this is such a good question. I can’t list all of the ones they got accepted to because I don’t know, I’ll just say where they went. </p>
<p>2010 Valedictorian: Dartmouth
2010 Salutatorian: Columbia
2009 Valedictorian: Harvard</p>
<p>I’m most likely the salutatorian this year, and I’m going to Temple. I think the valedictorian wanted to go to Notre Dame last time I checked.</p>
<p>2 years ago: Westpoint</p>
<p>last year: Arizona State University honors college</p>
<p>mehh</p>
<p>2007: Harvard
2008: Davidson
2009: UGA honors (I think)
2010: UNC Chapel Hill
2011: Georgetown most likely unless I’m valedictorian… in which case I don’t know yet</p>
<p>This is really not that relevant because class of 2008 had a non-valedictorian/salutatorian Stanford and UChicago bounds and class of 2009 had three non-valedictorian/salutatorian Princeton bounds and a Vanderbilt bound. Oh well.</p>
<p>Stanford SCEA, Harvard (prediction)</p>
<p>2010: Cal Poly Pomona, Sal at UC Irvine
2009: UCLA, not sure about Sal</p>
<p>No one’s gotten into an HYPSM from my school in a really long time. I’m most likely going to be val this year, but anything could happen I suppose. Hoping on UCLA/Cal/SD/Stanford.</p>
<p>Apparently, my school’s pretty unambitious. :P</p>
<p>2007 - University of Pennsylvania (my sister) - accepted to WashU, wait-listed at Columbia and Northwestern
2008 - University of Arkansas (in-state)
2009 - University of Arkansas (in-state)
2010 - University of Illinois</p>
<p>People here don’t tend to apply to top schools in the first place; most simply take full rides at local universities. I consider it a shame, because I’m fairly sure many would be accepted to top-tier institutions if only they wanted to go.</p>
<p>Weirdly enough, we do send people to the Ivy League every year, but they usually aren’t in the top ten (then again, our class sizes range around 800, so top 10 is hard to get). 2007, one of my sister’s friends went to Princeton, but he was probably around top thirty in his class. Same applies for one of my 2010 friends, who is now at Yale. When our vals do got to the Ivies, it’s usually Penn, and within the top ten, the top-tier schools people attend most often are Duke, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis. I believe we’ve sent all of one person to Harvard in the past two decades, and I’m not aware of anyone attending Stanford.</p>
<p>Still, responding to comments I saw earlier in the thread, I definitely believe being valedictorian is meaningful, and I would never say that anyone in the top 10 is valedictorian material. I wouldn’t even say #5 is the same as #1. In my experience, there is a <em>marked</em> difference in extracurricular performance, standardized test scores, and classwork.</p>
<p>2010- Harvard
2009- Harvard
2008- Yale
2007- Stanford
2006- Princeton
2005- Harvard</p>