It's all BS.
A decade later who will care?
My eldest daughter's school had 12 valedictorians.
My youngest's had 9.
I would have been the valedictorian of my school, but they gave it to my girlfriend. (I didn't contest that

) I was a year younger than her, and graduated a year early. My GPA was about 0.07 points higher.
But she was the daughter of a longtime and honored teacher at the school, and though I was better at science, language & math, she was
very talented.
And I couldn't have been prouder