salutatorian

One of my best friends in high school was a salutatorian because the school didn't wait grade.

And as Ted Nelson indicated, he graduated from Princeton as a salutatorian in only 3 years.

That would basally be admitting the valedictorian and salutatorian from each graduating class.

That's how the valedictorian and salutatorian a year or so after me ended up with final grades of something like 103.4 and 103.5.

One year the valedictorian went to UW-Whitewater, and the Salutatorian went to Yale.

My older sister also has a high IQ and ended up salutatorian etc, but she still had fun and a fairly large social group.

The salutatorian was a girl and she let everyone know how displeased she was for not getting valedictorian (beaten by 1/100 of a point).

They were salutatorian and valedictorian (don't remember in which order).

Another sister was salutatorian and became a nursery school teacher.

Our salutatorian was homecoming queen and a cheerleader too.

I graduated third, only a sliver of GPA away from salutatorian.

Think of class rankings in High School: The Valedictorian and Salutatorian (2nd place) almost always have practically identical academic records: 4.0 GPA, challenging courses, etc.

The definition of a valedictorian is literally "the student (singular) with the highest academic standing in the graduating class" just as the salutatorian is defined as the student (again, singular) with the second highest standing.

I couldn't care less about whoever hypothetical NYC chess-playing salutatorian I "beat out".

Salutatorian (same GPA actually but one fewer AP class broke the tie) went to Penn and he's also doing great.