06-02-2013, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by kaeb
My high school graduating class was 160 people and about 40 of us were valedictorians, as the title was conferred upon anyone with a 4.0 or higher, and AP/IB classes were weighted with an extra point (so an A was a 5.0, B 4.0, etc). So I graduated with like a 4.2 weighted, 3.7 unweighted.
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And this is why the valedictorian accomplishment is going to become meaningless.
ETA: You beat me to it.
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Originally Posted by kaeb
For me, at least, it had the opposite effect—when 1/4 of the class is a valedictorian, it really doesn't mean anything to be a valedictorian, and I think most of us knew/realized that.
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Last edited by ASTalumna06; 06-02-2013 at 04:09 PM.
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