<p>There are kids at my school with 2300+ SATs and near perfect GPAs that take every opportunity to bring up their perfect SAT II scores and their plans to retake a 2340 in pursuit of a 2400. A lot of the time they'll just start a conversation with, "So, what'd you get on the SAT Chemistry? 790? Yeah, I got an 800." </p>
<p>If I bring up college with the wrong people, they'll suddenly talk about how "bad" their transcript is and how that B from 9th grade is going to haunt them for the rest of their lives. If I ask about what specific colleges they're looking at, it's mostly Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT as matches and Brown, UPenn, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Duke as safeties. "Do you know what you're going to study? Are you interested in anything?" 'No, but I really want to go to an Ivy League so I can make money when I'm older.' I think at least 60% of the people I know want to major in premed so they can all become rich doctors when they're older.</p>
<p>How's your school, or, how's college life for that matter? I feel like I wouldn't be able to stand college if I were still surrounded with the same types of people.</p>
<p>Pwninjaga, your post is the articulate definition of LIFE. People will be condescending over others to boost their ego. The only possible way you can do, is overcome the intricate task and score higher than them. Life is very cruel and atrocious.</p>
<p>In our (sophomore) class, we are pretty mellow. We throw study parties at the library the night before a big test. I don't know, I think there is this strange sense of comradery between the top 5% of students in our class. Yeah, we are competitive with our friends and secretly want each other to fail. But we aren't obnoxious about it, like the juniors and incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>In my school particularly, the IB kids are ridiculously stuck up. You know when I was running for class president, some of them broke up all my flyers and torn them down only because I "wasn't in IB". They didn't even look at my plans for the year. </p>
<p>They are constantly doing that sort of thing. </p>
<p>And you know what's funny?</p>
<p>Year, after year, all the IB kids go to the state university. Yah- it's a good one, but for all four years of high school, they brag and brag and pay all this money to go to Summer programs at Georgetown and what not (the IB kids also happen to be magnet kids who happen to make an average of 40K+ than us because they come from way richer neighborhoods).</p>
<p>And they always end up in state university. :) Year after year.</p>
<p>As I was saying, that's funny 'cause I GUARANTEE you that when senior year comes around, I will be the one getting into all those schools they braged about for years. </p>
<p>I am DYING to ram it on their faces. :)</p>
<p>Really, you have no idea how really stuck up they are. I had a friend in the program, and when I told her she should take her SAT2, she said: "Are you kidding? I am in IB. I can get in anywhere."</p>
<p>Another time, I was telling this other guy about applying to Wharton at UPenn and he goes like: "If they see IB in your app they would INMEDIATELY get you in."</p>
<p>I just thought: "Yeahhhhhh Mr. Gullible......."</p>
<p>I can be stuck up if someone calls me dumb. If someone calls me dumb and is serious I will shut them down. </p>
<p>Otherwise I dont give a $h!t if i have a higher GPA or whatever, its so pointless and then no one will like you. Everyone in my school is average, so i dont really care...</p>
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<p>At my school some people think they're smarter than others especially a few freshman. It's funny how unknowledgable people are about college and stuff!!</p>
<p>There are a few people like that. This one girl who will only ask you what ou got on an exam so that she can say she did better. It's so obvious. </p>
<p>Once there was this chemistry test that was incredibly difficult and everyone did horribly and we were all talking about it. I said something like "Wow, Michele got a 78? I totally failed...I wonder what Emily got...she went through the test pretty quickly...she better not ruin the curve for us [laughs]" And then this girl goes "Well I got an 86 and it was the highest grade, Garb told me."
I'm like....I didn't ask you....</p>
<p>Far more annoying though, is my friend who is perfect at everything and completely sweet and willing to help anyone who asks for it because you want to hate her so much but just can't, haha.
She's varsity tennis since freshman year, great at all sports, skipped 3 years of math, amazing at science (Columbia Science thing), a really good artist, taught herself the guitar, the list goes on. But she's completely modest about it, has a great sense of humor, and will help you with anything you don't get.</p>
<p>My school isn't very competitive at all (public HS with about 4,000 students), so there's not a lot of that that goes on.</p>
<p>Sometimes we'll joke with each other and be like "Ha ha I got higher than you" but very rarely does anyone mean it.</p>
<p>I oftentimes have one of the highest grades in my classes, just because school is easy for me (I'm not trying to brag, just to prove a point), but I really try not to rub other people's faces in it because I know some people just don't have as much of an easy time with it as I do. And even then, I've had to call people to ask for help with stuff before (mostly math, that's my weak spot).</p>
<p>People joke with me about it a lot though. Like my freshman year I was the kid in science class who was always first to answer a question just because I REALLY like science and one kid one time was like "Kristi, just transfer to QUEST, you make us all look stupid." (QUEST is a smaller learning community at my school that is geared towards high achievers...they require several AP courses and such from all of their students.) And I was like "You guys don't need my help you do that all on your own." XD it was great, we mess around with each other a lot.</p>
<p>But yeah I've never done the "Oh you got a ---? I got a ----! ha ha ha." Because that's just annoying.</p>
<p>I agree. Everyone should just ask "Did you do as well as you thought you would?" and leave it at that. No need to know exact scores.</p>
<p>Although I find it kind of amusing that I see some of the posts in here as condescending towards the "top group." For example, I personally don't think the girl who mentioned the 86 sounds like she was trying to show off, she was just trying to volunteer information that would prove Emily couldn't have broken the curve.</p>
<p>I really want to say "yes" to the original question.</p>
<p>The salutatorian of our class was quoted in the yearbook in the "Gifted & Talented" section as saying, "I'm very priveleged to be in this program, for I can be myself and not waste my time around dumb people."</p>
<p>^My friends and I were talking about this subject (people who try to bring up their high grades/SAT scores), and I asked that as a joke at the conclusion of the conversation. Nobody got it, and they all gave me dirty looks before begrudgingly telling me their scores. I had to explain that I was kidding... haha.</p>
<p>Only a few kids are like that (for example, a girl at my school who got into Harvard. Example: she was in my friend's European History class, and then said, "It's a good thing I took this class, because I think that I want to take some classes on European history in HARVARD"). Others are just condescending in general.
Friend: (after taking SAT II in Chem- he only took Honors chem, which doesn't cover all the material, and didn't have time to go through an SAT II book) Ugh... that was harder than I expected.
Stupidface: Actually, I found the material included on this exam to be fairly easy in comparison with that which was included on past tests (almost exact quote). If you were adequately prepared, you should have found it to be embarrassingly easy.
Friend: .......</p>
<p>If it hasn't become clear yet, I really, REALLY dislike Stupidface.</p>
<p>Luckily, I don't go to an uber competitive school like most of you guys. In fact, there's only a hand full of "smart" kids and even less are aiming for top schools (and only 2 for Ivys--me and one other person). </p>
<p>I don't know what I would do if I had to be around all those kinds of people. That's just ignorant. I am very modest about my scores and only tell people them when they ask (because I think it would be worse if I didn't tell...like this one girl). But yeah, I don't go around asking what people got on their ACT...because chances are I got higher. I just let them bring it up. :P</p>