A girl in New Jersey sued for… the right to be valedictorian?! The girl was allowed to be home-schooled for ‘unspecified disabilities’. As a result of the absence of distractions, she graduated with a GPA .055 higher than the nearest student. For a variety of reasons, the superintendent wanted to name the two students co-valedictorians. This sparked a 2.7 million dollar lawsuit from the girl which made her no friends in her small town. She ended up rejected by her peers and rejected by Harvard who had initially admitted her. Score 1 for the rational team.
-Weekly Standard, 7/7/2003
4 responses so far ↓
1 rednip // Dec 28, 2005 at 5:52 pm
rejection was probably the ‘unspecified disabilities’ in the first place.
2 lisa // Jan 3, 2006 at 3:57 pm
i heard about this… I think it was an eating disorder or drugs..
not that she lost an arm or something.
3 matt // Jan 14, 2006 at 5:13 pm
she alegedly had cronic fatigue syndrome, which came (during school) and went (on weekends, or on the senior trip when she got up at 5am everyday and partied until midnight or later everynight). she was excused from taking gym which led to her taking another class and having a GPA that no student in the school could match. this led to the dual valedictorians, the lawsuit, and subsequent rejection.
harvard rejecting her had to do with articles she had written for a journalism class and submitted to a newspaper that had been plagarized.
4 bubbalove // Mar 21, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I believe this girl should indeed get the DEE DEE DEE award!
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