Q: What are employers and future colleagues, friends and business associates most likely to remember/be impressed by?
Scenario 1
That a person only got to be co-valedictorian, rather than sole valedictorian
Scenario 2
That someone got to be sole valedictorian, rather than co-valedictorian, after launching a high-profile lawsuit
I know I’m getting special treatment, but I want EXTRA special treatment!
That school just learned that no good deed goes unpunished.
I agree.
At least she wasn’t this fucktard:
Bolding mine.
Un-fucking-be-fucking-lievable!!!
The sense of entitlement displayed by this girl is contemptible. I wonder whether any of her family or friends have tried to pull her aside and tell her, “If you go through with this, people will hate you.”
And it’s not as if the valedictorian thing is that important anyway. She’s already been accepted into no fewer than five of the most prestigious colleges in the country. Her progress from here on will depend on how well she does in whichever college she chooses, not on her high school valedictorian status.
It’s a shame we’re not allowed to wish death on people.
What’s the #1 rule about attending college?: NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT WHO YOU WERE OR WHAT YOU DID IN HIGH SCHOOL.
I also love the fact that the reason her GPA is higher than the other students is that she didn’t take Phys. Ed., which was not weighted as much, because she has some sort of medical problem. You can’t hold a medical problem against the girl, but you also can’t use it to punish others.
I’ll bet she’s the coolest girl in school.
Are colleges allowed to retract your acceptance if they find out you’re a shallow whiny dipshit? Because this girl does NOT deserve to go to any of those schools.
Yeah, if I were in charge of admissions at Harvard, I’d be thinking twice about wether I’d want someone this litigous attending my school. Sounds like she’d sue if the cafeteria forget to put salt on her french fries. Why open yourself up to that kind of risk?
Of course, now that they’ve accepted her, even if they could rescind their acceptance, they’d still probably get sued by this Future Lawyer Joke, so I guess it’s a lose/lose situation.
It’s not really a case of entitlement, it’s more a matter of fairness. Depending on the case, of course, and you can’t really say just from reading an article about it. More research into it would be required to make a judgement, and you’d be surprised how much such a thing can change your life, you remember your high school years forever. Being jipped of something, when you deserve it, can be quite scarring. Not saying this is necessarily the case, but it very well may be.
What is the policy on being glad she has an immunity supressing thing?
by if you don’t tell
That’s true, if she is not allowed to be sole valedictorian, as opposed to co-valedictorian, she’ll be scarred for life.
(does a roll eyes smiley seem appropriate? i’m never sure . . .)
The damage is already done.
From the very first day her dormitory roommates Google her name out of curiosity (which’ll be a matter of days, no doubt), she is going to get an endless amount of grief over this.
Minor usage point to if you don’t…: The word “jipped” (usually spelled “gypped”) is a derogatory reference to “gypsy” (which is itself now considered an unacceptable word by many of the Roma people). You might want to avoid using it here.
Learn a new thing everyday.
but what bout the other person(s) in her class that deserve this honour(?) (is it an honour? we dont do it here)
she sounds like a spoilt brat that has got everything she wanted in her whole life, i hope the courts decide its about time she gets a slap of reality.
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I just find it quite appropriate that she hopes to become a lawyer.
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But what exactly is she being cheated out of? She will still be valedictorian either way. It appears to me it’s the other kids who are being cheated.
And, actually, there are quite a few of us who forget our high school years the day after graduation and have never looked back. There are some of us who realize how insignificant high school actually is in regard to the rest of our lives, assuming we did the basic thing and passed.
The colleges I applied to only cared that you were in the top, say, 10%, or even 25%, they really weren’t worried about your actual ranking. Of course, I applied to state colleges, which probably have different criteria. But even then, a prestigious private college did offer a four-year scholarship based on the combination of my SAT scores and ranking, and I was not valedictorian or even salutatorian. So I have to wonder just how important it is to anything except ego. Especially since she has already been accepted to several prestigious colleges.