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[quote=Anonymous]This exact situation happened to me in high school, a student moved into the large public school from Germany, and so had a greater % of AP classes and thus a higher GPA, and he ended up valedictorian.  The counselors/school realized it was unfair, and adjusted how the process worked after that year, but at the time it did bother me (but thank God my parents weren't involved, and frankly I doubt they even knew about the situation, it was before much helicoptering). Anyway, it was a good lesson for me, sometimes things aren't fair, but for sure it wasn't the German boy's fault.  I still got into Harvard, and if you think that being valedictorian or not matters, it really doesn't. As the other PPs said, once you are in the "academically highly qualified" group, it just doesn't matter if SATS 2400 or 2310, and GPA puts you first or third in a big class.  What matters then is essays, letters (which will be better if teachers aren't hearing about crazy student or mother making a stink about the new girl being valedictorian!) , and showing a special talent or skill that happens to catch the interest of application readers, and/or something nationally ranked that the school wants (i.e. athletes, musicians, published author, whatever).  So really calm down there is nothing you can do and it is ridiculous in the long run to worry about this, and if you truly aren't sleeping you need a therapist before you ensure your DD needs one for life![/quote]

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