One of my very good friends was Valedictorian when we graduated high school. Have you ever been one before?
Not quite, I wasn't even top 10%, lol. I try not to be hard on myself though. I graduated HS and college, so I'm happy. :)
Well of course! It is extremely hard to get the highest ranking grade point average among your entire class!
Exactly, especially when you can have the exact same GPA and the actual valedictorian gets decided by other metrics... Yikes.
Oh no! yeah that is a letdown for sure. But hey! you dont have to give the speech or address, the final farewell to all your classmates! That would make me so nervous!
Haha, I feel that. I'll drink to the fact that neither of us ever had to make actual use of those annoying public speaking classes, eh?
Yes! Those were awful! Now in Australia the title is awarded to the member of the graduating class who has made the most contribution to the school, thats different! 
That sounds great on paper, but how do you measure who "made the most contribution" when it comes down to it? Who gets to decide?
valedictorian's traditional role as the final speaker at the graduation ceremony before the students receive their diplomas. The valedictory address generally is considered a final farewell to classmates, before they disperse to pursue their individual paths after graduating.
In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, India and the United Kingdom, the title valedictorian is not used frequently. In Australia, the title is sometimes awarded to a member of a graduating university class on the basis of contribution to the school rather than academic success. The highest-
agreed to work with the filmmakers: "Well I'm not getting any younger and I wanted to express some things that might have been hidden. I wanted to release my heart and tell people about my highs and lows and I think you get that from this documentary... It wasn't difficult to make. We were followed all over the world by this film crew from Europe and I got to be very good friends with the filmmakers. I would say things and do things as if the camera wasn't even there.