In Titusville, Florida, the unbelievable occurred as each of a married couple’s four daughters was named valedictorian of the same high school.
Someone with probability calculations told Fox News Digital that the chance of this happening is 1 in 11 billion.
Celebrations were heightened at the Rendina Household and the sense of relief was palpable in the air when 18-year-old Ryleigh Rendina was named valedictorian at Astronaut High School.
Ryleigh followed her older sisters Taylor, 20; Alisa, 22; and Makaley, 24 in being named valedictorian, something which their mother Tracey said was never pushed on any of them, or even suggested as a target.
“We never told them they had to make As. There was no ‘You have to do this or else.’ It was always, ‘You just do your best,’” Rendina told Fox.
Tracey, the math department chair at Astronaut High, and her husband Mike said they always encouraged them to do their best and nothing more, but after their eldest Makaley was named valedictorian, and then two years later Alisa was too, and then two years later Taylor was also accorded the honor, there was an inescapable anxiety about Ryleigh.
Tracey and Mike were worried that with such a storied household sorority, Ryleigh would be too anxious about being named valedictorian and that if she were not, she would feel like she let herself and the family down, or that she wasn’t smart, talented, or good enough.
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“By the time we [reached] No. 4, and she knew that all of her sisters had been valedictorian, I do think she felt internally some pressure to do that as well,” Rendina said, adding that she and Mike had already established a family doctrine that everyone was supported in failure and success equally.
Then, in early June 2024, graduation called, and the family showed a four-of-a-kind.
“I think they all had that sense of relief that, ‘OK, we all did it. Now we’re all in this together and we all made it right,'” Rendina added. “It’s like a win for one is a win for all.”
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The parents are soon expecting to be “empty nesters” as the young women all go off on their own paths, including careers and university.
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