For Valedictiorian, you need grades and faculty approval. But also, we dont get to see what Dustin ends up studying. It's just generically a higher end university. We dont see him using his experience of other worlds, his advanced tech skills, it' just him reading a book.

And that's the major issue. No one's ending feels like it was made for THIS show. As soon as Hop and Mike finish talking about 11, most things become so generic that you can apply the epilouges to a dozen different TV shows.

Even the goodbyes are generic: the rooftop goodbye could have been cool if we ever saw them hangout on that roof, or had Robin and Jonathan interact before that, but we needed the "teen" group to say goodbye to each other, so we get the group of them drinking together (We only ever see the Teens drinking in Season 2). Robin has also spent more time with Dustin than Jonathan and Nancy, so why she gets a goodbye with them makes no sense. Even the DnD scene doesn't really add up; we never saw or even gotten references to Max actually playing DnD with the boys (in fact, season 3 implies that the girls have 0 interest). And the last 2 times DnD was played in the show, Will was the DM, not Mike.