Were You in the Top Ten in Your Graduating Class?

[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!

[KAPital PHINUst]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

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

How would such a GPA kill you class status? I'm missing something here.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

How would such a GPA kill you class status? I'm missing something here.

Most of the top 30 or so in my class had GPAs ABOVE 4.0 on a 4.0 scale. A 3.5 would MAYBE get you in the top 50%.

[SoEnchanting]

Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

How would such a GPA kill you class status? I'm missing something here.

In my HS the top students had either close to a 4.0 or higher. AP classes counted extra towards your GPA. A 3.5 would have been good but not "top" anything.

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by Infamous12;1460555
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? ....

[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.

[12dn94dst]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

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

same with my HS.

[Infamous12]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

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.

[NiaX]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

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.

you are so old.... I said I have good peeps from WH....

and I knew folks from the Hughes Center, and St. X, and one other school.. shoot, can't think of it.... good peeps all around...

get them old gold depends out the wrinkled behind...

[DSTdimepiece]

I was 9 out of 81, daggon Pre-Calc and honors geometry.

Was in National Honors Society, Who's Who of American HS students, Beta club, student council and all that jazz.

College I was in Golden Key and the departmental honor societies but didn't graduate with honors. Ironic, isn't it.

[RitaMae1908]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

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.

Ain't that the truth... quite a few of our 'Mostly Likely To Succeed' students, well some of them are coming up "short" in the real world!

I was in the Top 10% and NJHS. We were given special medals to wear with our Honor cords at graduation.

[sbx_six_eye]

I was 5 out of 200+ students (gotta think back to 1998)...I had a 3.7 and the top ten sat on stage for graduation. It's amazing how we think we have everything figured out at 17 or 18. I looked at my senior scrapbook the other day and wondered what was I thinking? LOL!!

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by Infamous12

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.

Well alrighty, then, we have to dialogue......

...but right now, I need you to get ready because I'm going to swing by, pick you up, and we are going to pay a little visit to Ms. NiaX.

I will hold her while you beat her dow er.....impress upon her the high academic rigor required of our dear alma mater (with her ole hate' talking self.)

We can both curse her out in Latin (cause we can do it like that).

[lovehaiku84]

Originally Posted by mulattogyrl

I was 80 out of 824.

824!! Wow, graduation must have taken forever!