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So one of the reasons why high schools now have multiple valedictorians is just sheer size: larger high schools do tend to have multiple students who ranked no. 1. Add in the possibility that the school adjusts the student's GPA for IB/AP classes, and most of those valedictorians probably have a 5.0 GPA, or even a 5.25 GPA, if the school gives A+ grades.
What metric should we use other than straight As and class rank to dictate who gets to be the valedictorian? As it stands, that's what we're using, and it does stand to reason that if multiple people achieve that, they should be acknowledged for it.
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