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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Stanford must have some kind of trained anti-fraud investigators on their admissions team. 20 years ago when I applied to Stanford Law I got a call from the head of admissions asking about why I had listed myself as “valedictorian” of my college class when my college didn’t do rankings. I was so panicked. My college had selected me as the graduation speaker from the top 5 GPAs (so I was told) and in my mind, giving the college commencement speech was being “valedictorian,” [b]but I guess that was a misrepresentation. [/b]I had them talk to the dean of students at my college to verify that I was the commencement speaker. But that was a very sobering experience and since then I have been excruciatingly honest on all applications. [/quote]
You guess?[/quote]

At the time, I thought that “valedictorian” just meant the person who gives the speech (which I did). I didn’t realize it would be seen as a misrepresentation. I didn’t write down “first in the class” or anything like that. [/quote]

Ummm, sure?  You were "smart enough" to seriously apply to Stanford Law, yet not smart enough to know what a valedictorian is?

Not buying that
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It’s a strange, reverse psychology justification.  The person who finishes first in the class gets to give the speech…hence, if I am invited to give the speech I must be first in the class because that’s who is invited to give the speech.

I like it…you just need to sell it and never deviate.[/quote]

She was never told she was first in the class nor was she told first in the class gives the speech. Such an odd story. Who told her top five were up for speech giving? [/quote]

My high school was like PP: the valedictorian (and it was called valedictorian!) was chosen by the faculty from the five students with the highest GPAs who had attended 4 years at the school.  They weren’t always the actual top of the class and ranks aren’t actually published so no one actually knew whether a given valedictorian was #1 or #5 in their year.[/quote]

At my high school, the valedictorian was elected by the senior class from among the students with perfect GPAs.  We had a lot of talent and no weighted grades.  This was also called valedictorian in the program.[/quote]

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