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Making the Grade

he race was on. As freshmen, they that of most schools. Instead of honoring the
lf? seniors struggled with Mrs. Lund's reject rules top two students for their achievements with
Tso they could enter the next round. the traditional valedictorian and salutatorian
Their sophomore year perhaps brought them titles, those who could maintain at least a 4.0
saw their the added weight of an AP class for the very GPA were honored together. This was not to
first time. And while, asjuniors,some figured say that the spirit of academic competition
they could join the privileged few who had wasforgotten;on the contrary, these students
academic kicked back since the 9th grade and still held fought, and fought hard, to attain their
their places, others rode all four years with a positions. With college applications in mind,
vengeance to the top. Theywere the Honors possible scholarships in hope, the Honors
labors pap Scholars for the class of 1996. Though only Scholars put up with demanding honors and
fractions of points, GP A-wise, separated many AP classes that they quite possibly had little
of these students, the school granted them all interest in to raise their GP As. But, in the end,
off the same prestigious award to congratulate the stress seemed all worthwhile to these
forty-seven seniors.
their excellent academic work.
This system was quite a bit different from --Kevin Kelly

Lynn Salahi; GPA: 4.61
Josh Chao; GPA: 4.58
Yasmine Gomez; GP A: 4. 5 7
Karie Frost; GPA: 4.53

Sara Caswell; GPA: 4.52
Eileen Peatman; GPA: 4.50
Cynthia Ho; GPA: 4.48
Kevin Kelly; GPA: 4.4 7

Cory Jones; GPA: 4.45
Hillery Martin; GPA: 4.43
Sarah Tolar; GPA: 4.43
Emily Roberts; GPA: 4.41

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