Wow you were valedictorian? I was ranked #3. Sure I could have been #1 but I decided to wing my way through high school that and I got perfect sat scores, lol. But still that's impressive.
Yeah, though I decided to wing my way through the SAT with a 1980, with a ~730 in math. Still got me into UC Berkeley, so I don't care. It wasn't until sophomore year where I decided to actually try to maintain my grades though. I happened to have all A's, and when we were shown our class rank, I saw that I was #1 at the time. So I decided to at least maintain that. I still didn't study for 90% of my tests though. That will need to change in college, though.