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I did a Google search on "high school 'top ten' graduate" and here's the distribution I found by the time I stopped clicking:
A - 2
B - 3
C - 7
D - 5
E - 1
F - 3
G - 8
H - 2
I - 1
J - 1
K - 0
L - 3
M - 5
N - 1
O - 2
P - 3
Q - 1
R - 4
S - 5
T - 3
U - 0
V - 5
W - 1
X - 0
Y - 0
Z - 3
It's a pretty small sample size, but the selection was pretty impartial. Draw your own cnclusions from the distribution... A helpful tool would be to compare this distribution with the distribution of last names among all students of this age. If the distributions largely match up, then it's pretty safe to say that there's no alphabetical bias. But if they don't then it warrants more investigation.
And yes, I have too much time on my hands.
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