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[quote=Anonymous]I think people overestimate the importance of valedictorian. The valedictorian is almost certainly one of the strongest students in the school, but it's also a student who played the game by the rules, because it has to do with the percentage of classes that are weighted. The way MCPS weights, for example, a student who takes 4 honors, 2 AP classes and a study hall, for example, will have a higher weighted GPA than the kid who takes 6 AP classes and ceramics or a new foreign language. At my school, the valedictorian is almost never the student with the most impressive college placement. They end up somewhere good, of course, but there are other kids who cared less about playing the GPA game and instead did the things they were passionate about, and did them well, and those are the kids who ended up at the very top. [/quote]
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