Just be glad you didn't go to my high school. The competition was freaking bonkers. We had three valedictorians because their GPAs were within .025 points of each other. Two of them had exactly identical GPAs (they took the same classes all four years and got straight A's) and the third only got a higher GPA because he opted to take a ninth class (AP of course), although I'm not sure how he ever managed that. If you weren't already taking as many AP classes as you could by first semester sophomore year, you were already out of the running for the top 5% (and possibly 10%) of the class. It was nucking futs.