I’ve been wondering how schools have multiple valevictorians.
However, I thought it was because they were doing the grades on a 4.0 scale where an A is anywhere from 90-100.
When I was in high school, our GPA was on a 0-100 scale, and the valevictorian had something like a 99.9.
By this new method, I would have been a valevictorian because I had straight A’s through high school, but my GPA was a 92.
Let me tell you, there was a huge difference between the girl that actually was valevictorian and myself. She deserved it.
I was considered an honor graduate. Anyone with a 90 or above GPA was an honor graduate.
And spelling would have been one of the areas I did not excell in, sorry. It should have been valedictorian.
The schools we’ve had experience with grade on a 4.0 GPA system but with the decimal plus, e.g., 3.999. Both our daughter and her co-valedictorian had taken advanced placement classes as well, which were graded on a 5.000 scale, so both girls actually achieved about a 4.600 GPA and were ultimately separated by only something like 0.001 point.
Yes - honor graduate, dean’s list, Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar... what is wrong with these things? Why must the crown be taken away from the valedictorian? And what do they do about the valedictory itself, let them each give a speech? Do like they do so annoyingly in commercials and have each say one phrase?