[sweetongreek]

I graduate Cum Laude at my high school, but we also had Valedictorian and Salutatorian. Our high school did not have weighted GPA (so the max was a 4.0) and only one graduate my four years actually had a perfect 4.0. Because of this there was rarely a tie for Valedictorian, but I think in the past there have been a few instances of ties and they've broken the tie based on courses taken (ex: taking more AP classes/honors classes, etc.). You also could only graduate Cum Laude/Valedictorian/Salutatorian if you were taking challenging courses--multiple AP classes, honors projects. Graduating multiple Valedictorians to me just screams "grade inflation". So I'm much more proud of my 3.75 unweighted compared to high schools graduating kids with 4.5s who got to take college courses.