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...than an hour. "She was smart," recalls Rusty, who was 25 at the time, as was Andrea. "She used two or three words and I didn't know what they were." Perhaps for fear of embarrassing him, she did not tell him then that she had been high school valedictorian. He had been a popular jock in high school--and a summa cum laude graduate of Auburn University. There were secrets she would never tell him. Her boldness was rooted in desperation: she had not dated until she turned 23, and she was getting over a romantic breakup. Only after...
...higher number of private schools do not share their rankings, including some independent schools in Chicago that, for example, have cum laude societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the student body - not GPA - dictate who speaks at graduation. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts...
...Viswanathan ’06 was selected by the Eliot House Fellowship Committee as the first recipient. Gilligan racked up numerous honors in his short life—though, as his sister, Lindsey A. Gilligan ’08 said, Paul preferred receiving laughs to receiving praise. He was valedictorian at his high school and graduated magna cum laude from the College with a degree in biology. He intended to enroll in medical school this fall. In his senior year, he received the John Finley Fellowship through Eliot, funding what would have been his travel for a year post-graduation...
...really feeling everything I stand for. How do I keep it super ignorant and crush all the haters at an institution of higher learning?”J-Zone thinks for a second and says, “What you do is bust your ass in class, become the valedictorian or whatever, and when you speak at your graduation, quote me.”Just like the Burning Bush gave Moses a divine mandate to talk to Pharaoh, we feel that J-Zone has anointed us to offer some final words of ignorance before we break the tape...
Fortunately for Plotkin, Viswanathan’s tumble from grace has relegated his sad story to the back pages of the papers. Before Plotkin, and perhaps more relevant to the circumstances at hand, there was Blair Hornstine, that notable valedictorian whose admission to Harvard was revoked when it was discovered that she had plagiarized articles for her local newspaper. Harvard rescinded the admission not on the grounds of academic plagiarism, but citing “conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student...