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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Extremely common.  Just read up on the HS threads on valedictorians where [b]everyone with above a 4.0 [/b]gets to be #1 in the class, meaning like 200 kids.   [/quote]

This does not mean they are all getting straight As. It means they take a lot of AP/IB/DE classes and likely get a mix of As and Bs. My DD was a W-L "valedictorian". She got a lot of Bs and occasionally had a C and once a D [u]on a quarter report card[/u]. [b]Fortunately for her GPA, that's based only on the final grade for the year.[/b]

In APS "valedictorian" means something more like "magna cum laude", aka the top tier of students in GPA but it's a pretty big tier.[/quote]

Wow. Ridiculous that kids with Bs would be valedictorian. Not to say they aren’t good students but it makes the distinction meaningless. [/quote]

Go back and re-read. The PP said that the lower grades were on the quarterly report cards, NOT the final grade.

And, APS looks at the weighted GPA for valedictorian, so if a student had a B in an AP class it'd still be a 4.0.

Many schools don't even bother with valedictorian these days anyway to cut down on unhealthy behaviors. It's not a big deal. 
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