high school girl doesn't get to be valedictorian

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

How does one even graduate in 3 years from high school anyways? I'm confused on how one of my sisters graduated from college in 3. 5 is pretty much the norm now.

It would've been hard for me to graduate high school in three years, but I believe it's still the case at most private colleges for students to graduate in four. In fact, with so many high achievers now coming to college with tons of AP credits, some are graduating college in three.

Originally Posted by epchick

It actually it is not that difficult to graduate HS in 3 years. In my HS you only needed 24 credits to graduate. During middle school you can get HS credit for speech, keyboarding, Algebra 1, Spanish/French. Then in HS you can "test out" of Spanish/French, and I believe other classes (although i dont remember which ones), then there are classes that you could take in the summer.

We could get high school credit for one year of a foreign language when we took it in 8th grade, but we had to save the rest for high school, where most of us took an additional two or three years. Is that not common anymore? I would think that as college admissions have become more challenging, students would be taking more than one or two years of a foreign language. At my university, all students have to take a foreign language through a third year level; if you've taken three or four years of a language in high school, you can probably test out of a year or two in college, but if you haven't, there's no way you're passing out of that requirement.