Were You in the Top Ten in Your Graduating Class?

12dn94dst · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 06-04-2007, 12:31 PM

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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 · #4 06-04-2007, 12:37 PM

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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.

FLKING · #5 06-04-2007, 12:27 PM

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

AlphaFrog · #6 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.

NiaX · #7 06-04-2007, 01:06 PM

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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 · #8 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 · #9 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 · #10 06-04-2007, 02:25 PM

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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.

NiaX · #11 06-04-2007, 02:55 PM

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^^^^^^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!

Oh hayle naw!!!! You went to the school with the GOLD dome!!! LOL!!!! Look like a space observatory from the highway!!!

j/k... I knew a few folks that went to WH when I went to UC... snappy folks!

TonyB06 · #12 06-04-2007, 03:07 PM

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Oh hayle naw!!!! You went to the school with the GOLD dome!!! LOL!!!! Look like a space observatory from the highway!!!

j/k... I knew a few folks that went to WH when I went to UC... snappy folks!

Hol up, NiaX,

you and I are cool and I've respected a lot of your posts, but YOU WILL NOT get on here at talk about the Eagles, the mighty, mighty Eagles. No mam.

TonyB06 · #13 06-04-2007, 03:05 PM

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

Walnut Hills. #34[/B].

Whoo-hoo!

C/O 2002!

Wait, you are a fellow Eagle? You know about Chatterbox and the Back Steps and the Latin Club? ....

Infamous12 · #14 06-04-2007, 03:27 PM

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Wait, you are a fellow Eagle? You know about Chatterbox and the Back Steps and the Latin Club? ....

Yes! Yes! YES! As well as the Annex (R.I.P.), Alumni Hall...oh the memories! Sursum Ad Summum!

Hey now Soror Nia X...that gold dome represents excellence and prestige. LOL. Depending upon the year you saw it, it may or may not have had class numbers painted on it...or perhaps cafeteria tables. How clever those seniors and their pranks.

12dn94dst · #15 06-05-2007, 11:05 AM

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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.

out of curiosity, i looked at my transcript. we weren't even ranked. in the section where that's supposed to go, it reads something to the effect of we don't rank but if you really need one, we can make a guess.