<p>Multiple vals:
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Scripps, other schools I might have missed.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Boston College, and Rutgers. I’m attending Princeton. But the Val last year went to Rutgers, and the year before that Columbia.
Sal(my brother): Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Can someone explain how you have more than one Val? I always heard it was the person with the highest GPA, do people just have the exact same GPA?</p>
<p>My school had so many kids with over a 4.0 GPA that we didn’t have an official valedictorian, but I know that the kids with the 2nd and 3rd highest GPA’s(both over 4.3, each took a full honors/AP courseload and scored over a 2300 on the SAT) are attending William & Mary-Honors College and UVA. The one going to W&M was captain of a scholastic challenge team that placed first in the state and mid-atlantic region, and was in band all 4 years. He was rejected from Duke and UPenn, although our school sent other kids to UPenn and Duke. Just goes to show that even straight A’s and good EC’s wont get you in, sometimes you need some luck.</p>
<p>My high school had a multiple valedictorian system, with all students having a GPA above 4.0 (possible in those days with “AA” grades) being deemed valedictorians. We had five valedictorians in my graduating class, who had taken very different classes from one another and who varying degrees of actual intellectual curiosity. I consider just one of those five to be the “real” valedictorian of my high school, but that is just my opinion, not anybody’s official designation. We also had eleven salutatorians, also students who were within a specified grade range, and one of those is my childhood best friend.</p>
<p>This year we had two Vals…One is going to Dartmouth and the other to Pomona College of the matriculated Sals, there is a Harvard, UCLA, USC x2, UPenn, Berkeley, and one going to an expedited med program in Kansas lol.</p>
<p>Year before that the Vals went to Harvard and Brown, and all I remember of the Sals is that 4 went to Berkeley.</p>
<p>She got into Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Duke (full ride), UVA (full ride), and Richmond (full ride). She is going to attend Harvard. She was not rejected by any of the schools she applied to.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t rank, because we’re already too competitive and the administration seems to suspect we’ll start killing ourselves over it. However, everyone knows the 2 kids who deserved it this year (in yearbook superlatives, they got picked as “should be valedictorians.”) One’s going to Harvard (she got our first ever Stanford acceptance too) and the other to Brown.</p>
<p>Val is going to Augustana (in IL), Sal going to West Point. Not sure where else they got accepted.</p>
<p>Hey Batman! …if a school does not weight the courses then all knids of people can get 4.0…the home ec major (like legally blonde) can have a 4.0 and so can the kid taking AP courses and all knids of tough science and math!..so schools weight classes…lika an A+ in an AP class is 6.25 and an A+ in a regular class is 4.25, and honors and college prep are in between…then it is extremely unlikely that 2 kids will have taken all the same extra hard courses and have gotten all the same A+s…hope that helps out…of course the weighted GPA’s are also available on a 4.0 scale for schools that want a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>fullride stanford, she’s a nationally recognized athlete, but got the scholarship for academics</p>
<p>The senior class before me:
Our School doesn’t have Val but the top 5 people get the “honor” of having their name called first at graduation, and that is about all they get.</p>
<p>1-Gardner Webb
2-UNC, only applied UNC
3-UNC, same as above
4-Lenoir Rhyne
5-Wingate, Accepted-UNC</p>
<p>Both Val and Sal are going to Columbia. It was a good year.</p>
<p>@Vernontwg
That’s awesome, but just so you know, Stanford doesn’t give merit scholarships so the reason she got a “scholarship” is because she didn’t meet the $60k threshold that requires a parent contribution. This is true unless she went through an outside organization like Questbridge, in which case I’m sure both her talent in sports and academia were taken into account. </p>
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<p>My friend Jake was Valedictorian
He’s going to Yale
but he got into Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Penn, full ride at UConn (instate), Cornell, Columbia, but he got waitlisted at Harvard.
My Salutatorian is going to Harvard however.</p>
<p>Harvard - denied
Yale - denied
Princeton - denied
Stanford - denied
Brown - denied
WUSTL - waitlisted
MIT- denied
NU - accepted</p>
<p>He’s going to Purdue in Illinois</p>
<p>Val: Wake Forest
Sal: pretty sure she went to UVA</p>
<p>Our val got into (and is going to) Harvard. She’s a friend of mine and is the first person from my school to ever get into Harvard. (and my school is a good fifty years old) She got into Dartmouth, UMD, and UMBC to my knowledge, and was WL at Brown and Johns Hopkins, which was her top choice, but hey, she got into Harvard.
Our sal got rejected from everywhere he applied, I heard, except Lehigh, which is where he will attend.</p>
<p>2012: ME!! school: probably HYPSMC whichever one I get into (2230, but aiming for 2300+)
2011: small lib arts (2200)
2010: Brown (2100)
2009: Yale (2100)
2008: Dartmouth (2100)</p>
<p>Purdue is in Indiana, not Illinois.</p>