<p>I read on their website that the class of 2008 had about 30% valedictorians…obviously, not every person applying is a valed so does anybody know the percentage of them that they accept…or a general idea of valedictorian acceptance especially if that person has other things going like sports, clubs, leadership positions, and community service…just procrastinating thanks!</p>
<p>i know valedictorian doesn’t guarantee anything obviously but cmon I’m left handed and I have one dimple. I have to say I have a few hooks there ;)</p>
<p>hahah I totally take pride in being left-handed but they say we don’t live as long and yesterday there was this thing in the newspaper about it being linked to breast cancer…some strange things like that.</p>
<p>Statistics show left-handed people are more likely to be schizophrenic, alcoholic, delinquent, dyslexic, and have Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, as well as mental disabilities. They’re also more likely to die young and get into accidents.</p>
<p>the study done in the past about how lefthanders are more likely to die sooner is fundamentally flawed. The problem with the study is that they only questioned people about what hand they used. Except that in the older generation, many would-be lefties were forcibly switched over to using their right hands for writing. Of course, this caused a significant drop off in the percentage of lefties as age increased, giving the impression that they were dying off. When another research team re-did the study, this time using the hand in which subjects held utensils and other evidence of hand dominance, they found no drop off in the percentage of lefties in the population. I did a research paper on this a couple years back, it was fascinating!</p>
<p>Heh, that reminds me of a conversation me and some floormates had this weekend over breakfast. We were discussing who had been valedictorian at their school, and it turned out that over half of us had been (this isn’t something commonly discussed at Dartmouth, and we’re East Wheelock nerds, so don’t be too intimidated ).</p>
<p>usually valedictorians are top students from every perspective, not only from statistics’ point of view. vals are involved in a lot of extracurricular activities and usually hold leadership positions, in addition to having significant awards. i believe that is why vals have a higher admission rate and not purely because of rank 1. indeed there are vals who don’t exactly have everything that it takes to get into an ivy and that is why harvard, for instance, rejects 4 out of 5 valedictorians.</p>
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