I just figured out i can't be valedictorian or salutatorian? I'm flipping out?

Question

In my school to be that you must have: the highest weighted gpa, and MUST have an honors diploma.

The thing is that i have a perfect 4.0 unweighted and highest weighted gpa but i dont have an honor's diploma because to complete that requirement you must have completed 2 years of foreign language something thats i dont have and can't complete. I don't think its fair that i can't be valedictorian or salutatorian just because of one that stupid requirement. What do i do???

Answer 1

I hate to say this, but this is a lesson learned; carefully check requirements for things that you want, and check them in plenty of time to remedy them.

You may not feel it's fair for you to miss out, but wouldn't it be unfair to give it to you, when others did their homework and made sure to complete the requirements?

Don't worry too much about it. Finish your education; even without those honors, you're a great candidate for most colleges!

Answer 2

try taking community college classes for a language dont worry u will still graduate.

Answer 3

Don't worry about it.  After you graduate high school, nobody cares.  It doesn't make any difference how you did in high school, once you get into college.  

Oh, and you think you have it rough.  Let me tell you an amusing, but true, fact, in hopes of cheering you up.

I graduated third in my high school class.  My ex-boyfriend was valedictorian.  The girl he dumped me for was salutatorian.  Ouch.

Answer 4

I don't know...my school had those rules too, but they still made me Salutatorian (I have no idea why), and I only took one year of French.

You could try talking to the counselor, but I doubt you'll get anywhere with it.

Don't worry....once you get to college, it's not even going to matter what kind of student you were in high school or whether you were Sal or Val. You'll have to prove yourself all over again.

Answer 5

They had the rules in place and apparently you knew about them.

You didn't fulfill the requirements, but someone else did.

So that's the way it goes.

You might not like it but it is fair.

Answer 6

There is sometimes a loophole;  2 years of computer language may count as a language.

You should be able to legitimately appeal the status of your 2 yrs of Spanish, *specifically* as it applies to your eligibility to be valedictorian.  (Avoid letting them get distracted by getting into the larger picture of whether the experimental program now counts as mainstream on your transcript.  Or maybe not.)  Did you think you had in good faith met the language requirement?  Did a guidance counselor ever bring this up with you?  There might be a record one way or another.

Being S or V is pretty good at the time, but the effect is not far reaching or long lasting.  Colleges care more about your SATs and gpa/course selection.

I was valedictorian at my school.  Thing is, I dropped out of college twice.  That and a dollar will get you a can of Pepsi once you're a year out of high school.