<p>It’s sort of a curse at our school to be valedictorian because they usually only get accepted to the state schools (which aren’t bad). It’s just interesting since the 10-15 other kids below him or her usually end up at a great out of state school. Last year, we had UF from the valedictorian, but Cornell, Wake Forest, and MIT from the rest of the top 10.</p>
<p>This year is even stranger with the valedictorian deferred from Princeton EA (applying to Columbia & Cornell), and the rest of us are set to attend Brown, Vanderbilt (2), University of Chicago, and Julliard as of ED/EA. However, I’m fairly certain this one has been our strongest valedictorian in years, so they’ll most likely end up out of state. </p>
<p>Is this situation similar to any other schools?</p>
<p>Are the valedictorians in your schools generally considered the best academically? In D’s HS, at least for the class ahead of her, the valedictorian is just known as a grade grubber. Her (last year) AP US History teacher tells horror stories about how he would walk out of the bathroom to find her waiting there to discuss why she thought she deserved a 100 instead of a 99. She had a 100 for the rest of the year, and he went to the bathroom in peace, LOL.</p>
<p>That might have more to do with our school’s system though, each 1-100 point is weighted differently (100-4.0, 99-3.9, ect) so to get an UW 4.0 one would need straight 100s…</p>
<p>In any case, it’ll be interesting to see where she is accepted.</p>
<p>@ Jerekson The valedictorian for my school definitely isn’t the all around smartest but he’s probably the most organized, eloquent, and “on top of everything” student in my grade. The salutatorian is more laid back and naturally smarter than the val (sal is going to Williams (ED), val is going to Harvard (EA))</p>
<p>We have like 12 Val every year because we choose the people over a certain rank.
There is a #1 and #2 within the Vals though…</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li> Stanford University</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>University of Hawaii, Manoa, Regents Scholar (she gets paid to go to college)</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li> Scripps College</li>
</ol>
<p>They were a really smart year in my opinion. Besides them, there were others who went to Princeton (1 more), Yale (1 more), Stanford (2 more), NYU (1), etc. etc.
My year (this year)…isn’t doing as hot. We do have one Harvard EA, MIT EA, and Pomona acceptances already though.</p>
<p>This year’s val got in to Stanford SCEA, still waiting on other acceptances (UCs mostly) although he already knows he is going to attend Stanford. So jealous!</p>
<p>No class ranking or val (progressive private school), but people know who the top ten or so probably are. 2 at Harvard, 3 at Yale, 1 at Stanford, and the rest of us are still waiting (deferred at Princeton–this wait is killing me!).</p>
<p>Valedictorian: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton. Going to Harvard.
Salutatorian: Early Decision Dartmouth
They both worked very hard so I’m really happy for them!</p>
<p>I think I’ve got you beat. I probably won’t know where I’m going until mid-April-already deferred from BC and that’s the best school I applied to. Sometimes, I’d rather just forget it all and go to PSU main.</p>
<p>Valedictorian - Columbia, Duke, and UF. Rejected at all other Ivies (but didn’t apply to Cornell or Dartmouth). Going to Columbia if FA comes through.</p>
<p>Salutatorian - Going to FSU. Only applied instate.</p>