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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

Yep. So you could be one of the 250 #1's or #251. There is no #2.

It's crazy. My kid's private is old school and there is one Valedictorian and one Salutatorian. There are 1,100 students.

I was in Ffx Co in the 80s at a high school of 2K and we had a single Valedictorian.

I think grade inflation and everyone gets a trophy colors it.

I graduated from Robinson HS in the late 80s and we had multiple valedictorians and salutatorians. I think my senior class had around 1K students. It's been dumb for a long time.

I think multiple valedictorians is ridiculous. In the old days, there might have been 2 students who tied for the spot. But with today's grading and AP courses, etc., having 200 so-called valedictorians is absolute nonsense. GPA's should speak for themselves on a student's transcript and applications. However, I don't see anything wrong with "ranking" students' GPAs so that students can determine where they stand/finished among their peers. It does mean something to be in the top 10% of your class, or the top whatever % -- but based on GPA, not 200 students with "#1" status then the 201st student gets the ranking of 201. That student had the 2nd highest GPA and should get that acknowledgment.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kind of. At W-L, anyone with a GPA of 4.0+ is given a rank of "1". Everyone below that has an actual rank.

Yep. So you could be one of the 250 #1's or #251. There is no #2.

It's crazy. My kid's private is old school and there is one Valedictorian and one Salutatorian. There are 1,100 students.

I was in Ffx Co in the 80s at a high school of 2K and we had a single Valedictorian.

I think grade inflation and everyone gets a trophy colors it.

I graduated from Robinson HS in the late 80s and we had multiple valedictorians and salutatorians. I think my senior class had around 1K students. It's been dumb for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:Class rank benefits maybe the top 10 students in a class and potentially hurts everyone else. A great many schools are moving away from it.

As in the top 10 students who should get a benefit? The truth is what hurts. Give everyone a trophy.

OP I stand corrected

Anonymous wrote:Class rank benefits maybe the top 10 students in a class and potentially hurts everyone else. A great many schools are moving away from it.

If by "potentially hurts everyone else" you mean a few kids miss out on their top choice Ivy because they missed being in the top 5 or 10% of their class, boo hoo.
How else could "everyone else" potentially be harmed?