Were You in the Top Ten in Your Graduating Class?

CrimsonTide4 · #1 06-04-2007, 09:21 AM

At your high school graduation, were you in the top ten? Which of our GCers was their class valedictorian or salutatorian?

pinkies up · #2 06-04-2007, 09:30 AM

Number 6 out of 253. Go Class of 1995!

lovehaiku84 · #3 06-04-2007, 09:37 AM

I was my high school's valedictorian. Class of 2002.

SoEnchanting · #4 06-04-2007, 11:27 AM

I was in the top 10, and got to sit on the stage at graduation! Class of '00.

Ahh the good old days...

12dn94dst · #5 06-04-2007, 11:29 AM

I think I was somewhere in the top 20 of 70. The whole school was made up of the top students in their middle school classes, chicks who cried if they didn't get a 1600 on the SAT.

ladygreek · #6 06-04-2007, 12:26 PM

Don't know. They only announcd the top two. But I was a national honor society inductee and a Negro National Merit finalist, so I suspect I was at least in the top 20 of a class of 400.

FLKING · #7 06-04-2007, 12:27 PM

Was in the 10% and was NAACP Portriat of a Dream Honoree! Class of 1994

AlphaFrog · #8 06-04-2007, 12:29 PM

I wasn't (really competitive Catholic Prep School - you had to have about a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale [w/honors weight] to even crack the top 20) but I remember one year the top 10 took a yearbook pic with all of them attempting to form their "number" with their body. Number 1 was a guy, and all the rest were girls.

FLKING · #9 06-04-2007, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

Don't know. They only announcd the top two. But I was a national honor society inductee and a Negro National Merit finalist, so I suspect I was at least in the top 20 of a class of 400.

My only regret in HIGH SCHOOL was being to bad. I was eligible third qrt of my Jr. year but because I had to much mouth my gym teacher would not recommend me

But I learned cause in college I was inducted into Sigma Beta Delta (Nat'l Business Honor Society)

SoEnchanting · #10 06-04-2007, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

Don't know. They only announcd the top two. But I was a national honor society inductee and a Negro National Merit finalist, so I suspect I was at least in the top 20 of a class of 400.

Just curious - do you (or anyone) know if this is the same thing as a National Achievement Finalist? If so, I wonder when the name changed.

DSTCHAOS · #11 06-04-2007, 12:51 PM

I was in the National Honor Society and the top 10. But not valedictorian or salutatorian.

Unfortunately, our salutatorian didn't have the outcome that folks assumed she would. She found another path that is equally satisfying for her. That goes to show that high school accolades are often a sign of something other than future ACADEMIC success.

NiaX · #12 06-04-2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I wasn't (really competitive Catholic Prep School - you had to have about a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale [w/honors weight] to even crack the top 20) but I remember one year the top 10 took a yearbook pic with all of them attempting to form their "number" with their body. Number 1 was a guy, and all the rest were girls.

That is how my HS is.... Folks with high gpas were in the 100s and 200s...

class of '98

Infamous12 · #13 06-04-2007, 01:13 PM

^^^^^^Very true with my high school as well. I remember, years before she was valedictorian, one of my classmates got soooo flustered with our Honors class project that the teachers, all 3 of them, pushed back the due date.

One of them commented: 'If (name) can't finish it in time, I know the rest can't.'

< But so true.

Oh, and what high school did I go to? Ahem, let's check Newsweek's Best Public High School rankings...ah, yes...Walnut Hills. #34.

Whoo-hoo!

C/O 2002!

KAPital PHINUst · #14 06-04-2007, 02:18 PM

Technically I was ranked #20 out of 141 students in my class (top 15%), but keep in mind that was based on the first THREE years of high school and does not take into consideration senior year. But taking into consideration that I pulled at least a 3.5 GPA my senior year AND taking a full courseload with no Mickey Mouse classes (I could've taken the remaining 2-3 classes required for graduation and called it a day) AND a lot of other seniors had "senioritis" like a mu'luva, I am reasonably sure that despite what the "official" reports say, I made the top 10 percent of my class (or at least top 11)

AlphaFrog · #15 06-04-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

But taking into consideration that I pulled at least a 3.5 GPA my senior year AND taking a full courseload with no Mickey Mouse classes (I could've taken the remaining 2-3 classes required for graduation and called it a day) AND a lot of other seniors had "senioritis" like a mu'luva, I am reasonably sure that despite what the "official" reports say, I made the top 10 percent of my class (or at least top 11)

Wait, a 3.5 would have moved you UP in class rankings? A 3.5 would have killed your class status at my HS.