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10 years ago, my HS class didn't have valedictorians...just summa cum laude for the top 1%, magna for the top 3%, and cum laude for the top 10%. It's funny that what seemed so important 10 years ago doesn't matter now.
RE: college graduation rates, the person who said that 4 years is still the standard for private schools is absolutely right. Where in a public school there's a good possibility of having classes fill up, that just isn't happening in most private colleges. If a class I needed to graduate got cancelled, then I could always liase with the professor to do an independent study on the same topic.
I went to an IB school, and every diploma holder gets a year of advanced standing at most schools. My classmates who went to Florida schools all tried to get out in 3 years, which I do not understand whatsoever. I was offered a year as well, but if I had done that, there was so much that I couldn't do--study abroad, taking classes at RISD, being PanHell president, etc etc etc. Who wants to do college in 3 years? Also, most of those kids had full-tuition scholarships, so it wasn't as if they were saving their parents any money, either...weird kids.
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