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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids is a rising 11th grader, currently ranking #1 in her class. Come back in 2025 and ask again. (if she's not been knocked off the top spot).

What an odd post. You know that they are probably not going to stay number 1 through two more years. Why brag about it now?

Your post is odd. It is very common for the valedictorian to have been in the top spot for all four years.

Good for your DD, PP. Best of luck to her.

No it’s really not in my experience. I just asked my DS to verify my memory and he confirmed that at the end of senior year, the top three all changed (he ended up top five so he knew all these people personally ). Literally the week of graduation after grades were calculated they ended up with co-valedictorians and the girl who was valedictorian going into that week, even had a speech written, ended up #3.

Oh... Okay!
Your posts are definitely the super normal ones here.

Anonymous wrote:At the Walter Johnson (MCPS) graduation yesterday, there was a senior with an academic award who spoke, and I assume he was the equivalent of the valedictorian. No idea where he's going! WJ has a graduating class of 720 this year, and there are a few going to Ivies, but don't know who specifically.

He's going to UMD.

I know a bunch of these schools (they're not hard to figure out if you have a senior with friends at DMV schools and/or the public Instagram pages)
and the valedictorians/Salutatorians who are going to Stanford or Harvard or Princeton are pretty much all legacy.
Not surprising.

1)smart begets smart.
2)even valedictorians at top DMV schools (a crazy impressive feat) need an additional hook to get into HYPS. The admissions peak for academic, unhooked kids in the DMV is often the lesser Ivies, other top 20s.

how do you know your kid's class rank (or the rank of other kids) prior to senior year?

Wharton and UC Berkley
Top public school in a Great Plains state

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids is a rising 11th grader, currently ranking #1 in her class. Come back in 2025 and ask again. (if she's not been knocked off the top spot).

What an odd post. You know that they are probably not going to stay number 1 through two more years. Why brag about it now?

Your post is odd. It is very common for the valedictorian to have been in the top spot for all four years.

Good for your DD, PP. Best of luck to her.

No it’s really not in my experience. I just asked my DS to verify my memory and he confirmed that at the end of senior year, the top three all changed (he ended up top five so he knew all these people personally ). Literally the week of graduation after grades were calculated they ended up with co-valedictorians and the girl who was valedictorian going into that week, even had a speech written, ended up #3.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids is a rising 11th grader, currently ranking #1 in her class. Come back in 2025 and ask again. (if she's not been knocked off the top spot).

What an odd post. You know that they are probably not going to stay number 1 through two more years. Why brag about it now?

Your post is odd. It is very common for the valedictorian to have been in the top spot for all four years.

Good for your DD, PP. Best of luck to her.

MD Catholic

V - Notre Dame
S - Michigan

Both engineering

I know of three vals.

Private Catholic - UMD
Public STEM - UMD
Private Catholic 2 - UMD

Public

V) U of Chicago
S) MIT

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids is a rising 11th grader, currently ranking #1 in her class. Come back in 2025 and ask again. (if she's not been knocked off the top spot).

What an odd post. You know that they are probably not going to stay number 1 through two more years. Why brag about it now?

Duly noted. I'm thrilled she is #1 and I shall brag and crow as long as I am able.

GL to her. We’ll be looking for you to post the outcome, PP.

On pins and needles here.

Eleanor Roosevelt HS in Prince Georges County
V - UMD Banneker Key
S - MIT

Anonymous wrote:Public HS that is eh okay not amazing

Val - Columbia Sciences Po idk what that means

Sal - Yale

My understanding is that it means the kid will do two years in France and 2 years jn Columbia's School of General Studies (usually not Columbia College) but will get a degree from Columbia College.

Private not on the area


Yale
Notre Dame

Public HS that is eh okay not amazing

Val - Columbia Sciences Po idk what that means

Sal - Yale