<p>The count for the 12 biggest schools in the state:</p>
<p>University of Florida - 42
University of Miami - 12
Florida State University - 3
Florida International University - 3
Florida Atlantic University - 2
University of North Florida - 2
University of Central Florida - 1
University of West Florida - 0
Florida Gulf Coast University - 0
Florida A&M - 0
University of South Florida - 0
New College of Florida - 0</p>
<p>Last year 5 of the top 10 went to UF. This year only 2 which is surprising. Given the state of the economy and most parent’s investments, you figure there would be more cashing in their Bright Futures.</p>
<p>Oh p2n, your subtle distortion of sources is always comical. </p>
<p>Because FSU is clearly lagging behind on Valedictorian count, you try to under weigh the importance of being Valedictorian, even though it is a universal measurement of public perception. </p>
<p>The only people foolish enough to believe your chicanery are likely going to FSU already…</p>
<p>p2n, no problem! UF will gladly take all the “academically fake” valedictorians in the state. These students make a better fit with the “academically fake” UF institution anyway! lol</p>
How is parent2noles distorting the source? All he/she posted is all that is written. </p>
<p>parent2noles is trying to make the point that achieving high school valedictorian status, while extremely difficult and respectable, is not an indicator of success because it’s purely based off of academic record. This isn’t to undermine the distinction, but instead to put it into perspective.</p>
<p>p2n is using an irrelevant secondary source to distort the intent of the primary source. The original source only discusses where Valedictorians in each respective county will go to school, not the importance of success in the future.</p>
<p>I would expect it to go over your head Invictus.</p>
<p>i back up intangiblegator. parent2noles is coming to the realization that UF is clearly a school that has students of a much higher academic caliber and is trying to distort the situation by insinuating that you don’t want students of that high academic caliber because… i don’t even know what she was trying to say. The blog and consequently she is insinuting they won’t be succesful (at college and) in the future because of this universally recognized achievement. Even though this achievement shows they were THE MOST SUCCESFUL of all their peers in the most important thing a person encounters during their adolescence. haha amazing logic there by the author.</p>
<p>oh and all the blog posts of that person isn’t worth the achievement of 1 salutatorian in any one high school across america. actually it isn’t worth anything. that blog post is worthless because it is such a ridiculous assertion. it’s not worth arguing against.</p>
<p>parent2noles, it’s really weird that you would link to a blog entry; it’s not even someone discussing a news article on the subject, it’s just some guy giving his opinion. Granted, I agree with his opinion, but it’s still kind of weird of you.</p>
<p>The writer certainly presents another perspective to those who’d just as soon and uncritically assume Harvard was located in Gainesville instead of another large state university. I think most presume UF is a good state university, but I have to part company with the few who think it is elite overall. It does have some relatively stellar programs such as engineering but then others that aren’t quite so accomplished are around as well. And…once again the same case could be made for Florida State.</p>
lol</p>