Were You in the Top Ten in Your Graduating Class?

[12dn94dst]

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

nope, definitely not in top 10 class rank, and i think i just barely made it in top 25%.

everything was SO competitive [example: teachers telling us if you don't get a 1300 on the SAT you would be NOTHING (this was back in the day when the highest score was 1600). You might as well sign up to be a janitor after graduation if you don't go to an Ivy League school, or at least a highly ranked private college. And HBCU??? What are those??? ]

Did you go to high school with me? lol I hated that school so much that i tried to get kicked out. i purposely didn't do a lick of work my freshman year, failed everything. the school honestly thought i wasn't able to handle the course work. my parents had a trick for me though, they made me spend the summer in tutoring.

[KAPital PHINUst]

Slightly off topic, but noteworthy of mention:

My #20 ranking was considering the fact that I intentionally let my GPA drop to a 2.4 my junior year from a 3.1 in prior years (I'm surprised it was still in the top 15% after that) because I was trying to "dumb myself down" b/c I wanted to be seen as a "normal" student and not a "nerd".

Fortunately, FWIW, I came to my senses, said to heck with everyone else, and pulled a 3.5 and acheived like I was supposed to do. (I had a 3.8 the first grading period---all As and one B, the best grades I had in all the 12 years of schooling).

I never made National Honor Society--I always considered that org for "squares" and the social climbing suck-ups. The Kitty Hawk Air Society was all I needed.

[Still BLUTANG]

Originally Posted by 12dn94dst

my parents had a trick for me though, they made me spend the summer in tutoring.

My parents THREATENED me with tutoring my freshman year when i was making "good" grades... but then when i dropped to making "O.K." grades they left me alone. WEIRD parents... but i guess everything worked out well. or averaged well enough.

Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

I never made National Honor Society--I always considered that org for "squares" and the social climbing suck-ups. The Kitty Hawk Air Society was all I needed.

I was also in JROTC as well as Kitty Hawk.

[MsDJ80]

I graduated in the top 10% of my class #23 out of 280+. I was also a member of the Spanish National Honor Society, voted "Best ALL AROUND" by my Senior Class, and Homecoming Queen along with my then boyfriend/now hubby as the King

[Missam05]

I was number 5 in a class of 232 (I think that was the number..) Only 3 AA members and I was the highest. Class of 2001

I'm not even sure what happened to our salutitorian. After graduation, the rumor was that she turned down a scholarship b/c she didn't like her roommate and then went to a community college.

Most if not all of the top 10 are college graduates and working hard!!

[jojapeach]

I was #8 out of 366 (I think 366). I was #6, but that F in AP English dropped me right on down. To this day, I still hate Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

I was in National Honor Society, president of the Beta Club, SGA, and Spanish Honor Society.

What's interesting is that I really don't know what happened to most of the top 10. We just don't keep in touch, but I know the valedictorian and her best friend in the top 10 had a huge falling out during college. They went to different colleges. Valedictorian had always wanted to be an XYZ and became an XYZ. Her best friend always talked about ABC, but they were suspended for years. Therefore, best friend jumped on an undergrad resurrection line for XYZ that was brought in by the grad chapter. The last time I saw them together, they were icier towards each other than the coldest Alpha. That's icy.

Yes,...I digressed all over the topic.

[nonchalant]

Yes, I was.

[LatinaAlumna]

I was #9 out of 396.

[NiaX]

Originally Posted by Infamous12

^^^^^^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]

Originally Posted by NiaX

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.

[mulattogyrl]

I was 80 out of 824.

[lovehaiku84]

Originally Posted by mulattogyrl

I was 80 out of 824.

824!! Wow, graduation must have taken forever!

[nikki1920]

I was in the top 20%, probably. I took three AP classes my senior year (one was first period ), was a National Honor Society member, Spanish National Honor Society member, and was glad as HAYLE to done with senior year. I graduated with a 3.8, I think.

Class of 1994...... wow!!

[Senusret I]

I was not in the top 20, so I have no idea what my rank was. Nor was I in the National Honor Society.

Ten years later, I turned out okay.

[christiangirl]

HA! I'm just grateful I wasn't in the bottom 10%! I was in the top third of my class in college though, maybe the top 20%, I'm not sure, but definitely over 30%.