Were You in the Top Ten in Your Graduating Class?

[CrimsonTide4]

At your high school graduation, were you in the top ten? Which of our GCers was their class valedictorian or salutatorian?

[pinkies up]

Number 6 out of 253. Go Class of 1995!

[lovehaiku84]

I was my high school's valedictorian. Class of 2002.

[SoEnchanting]

I was in the top 10, and got to sit on the stage at graduation! Class of '00.

Ahh the good old days...

[12dn94dst]

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]

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]

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

[12dn94dst]

Originally Posted by 12dn94dst

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.

[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.

[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!!

[CrimsonTide4]

I was #21 out of 22.










And if you believe that, you've never met my mother. I was #21 out of 213 people.

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by mulattogyrl

I was 80 out of 824.

Gooooood Lord!! Did you go to one of those tri-county high schools? lol

Originally Posted by 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.

Ditto...except for it hasn't been 10 years for me yet.

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by lovehaiku84

824!! Wow, graduation must have taken forever!

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Gooooood Lord!! Did you go to one of those tri-county high schools? lol

LOL. Yeah, it's a big high school. It's built like a small college campus. In 9th grade, we actually started out with 1 thousand something, but with dropouts, pregnancies, kids getting killed, etc. we ended up with 824.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

I was #21 out of 22.

I was about to say "I don't feel so bad" then I looked at who said it and knew it couldn't possibly be true.