<p>Ugh.....Freshmen....cant stand them. They think they're so smart and cool but all the other ppl just see them as immature idiots running around (most of em anyway)</p>
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Ugh.....Freshmen....cant stand them. They think they're so smart and cool but all the other ppl just see them as immature idiots running around (most of em anyway)
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The funny thing is that's probably how the upperclassmen viewed your class when you were a freshman :-p</p>
<p>^Oh, I know!!! I'm actually embarrassed of the way that I acted as a freshman. If I were an upperclassman, I would have hated myself =)</p>
<p>But, yeah... freshmen have terrible attitude problems. Seeing freshmen before school starts and they go into "OMGI'MANAWESOMEHIGHSCHOOLER" mode helps. I tend to like all the XC freshmen more for this very reason.</p>
<p>Well, there will always be people like that - not just the stereotypical "smart kid". I know that the "smart kids" (what's the definition of that anyways? Good test scores, a high GPA, top class rank? Not always a correlation, in my opinion) would probably know not to brag if they are smart enough about it - if you understand advanced calculus, it's not excessively hard to understand that people, in general, don't hang out with arrogant know-it-alls.</p>
<p>You also have to remember that there's a difference between being smart and getting good grades. My brother never even went to college and barely graduated high school but he's INCREDIBLY smart. Same with my mother, she graduated from HS with high honors but never went to college and she is really smart.</p>
<p>Reversely, just getting good grades doesn't necessarily make you smart. I know some people who are really "book smart", but when it comes to just being common sense smart they're dumb as a bag of rocks.</p>
<p>Yeah what everyone has said is true..that's why I almost never talk about academics with anyone. I just don't want to come across as conceited and I don't particularly want to hear people brag to me. That's why I came to CC.. to discuss and read about academics without imposing on anyone or being imposed upon myself :p</p>
<p>Even though our school is considered a public magnet school with top kids from all over the city, the students in general are not that arrogant. Most people help each other rather than put others down.</p>
<p>However, of course there are the occasional few that try to elevate themselves over the others. There was this one guy, who kept on claiming that he had photographic memory, bragging that he was the top student in his class in junior high, telling the world that he had finished all of the high school curriculum already when he was in gr. 10.</p>
<p>Well, he wasn't even in top 5% in our grade.</p>
<p>My school isn't necessarily competitive. There are only a handful of students who are worthy of bragging about their grades, and those students don't. As far as standardized test scores go, most people don't bring it up. Only myself and another kid in my grade have taken the SAT thus far, and we only know each others' scores because they were published in the district newsletter.</p>
<p>They published your SAT scores?? I did really well, but I still wouldn't want to publish mine...</p>
<p>They did it without permission. We both took the SAT in 7th grade and scored in the top 10% of the high school district. They thought it was exceptional, so they published it. I found out my scores from there before the college board notified me.</p>
<p>In truth, we just have a really dumb high school district. ;)</p>
<p>That makes more sense. I guess in 7th grade it doesn't really matter too much, especially since you're probably taking the SAT again anyway. I just think as a junior or senior it would be awkward to have everyone know your score.</p>
<p>Again going back to the original question, it is life. What you have to do is surround your self with people who AREN'T like that. Just because you hang around with the "less motivated" crowd does make you any less of a scholar. You know your achievements, the entire school doesn't have to. But I can relate to your fear of snobby classmates in college, I think though that those Ivy's are big enough that you will be able to get away from the arrogant overachievers you had in high school.</p>
<p>Hmm, actually a lot of the smart kids, if not all of them, are very humble and friendly. Kind of surprising to be honest.</p>
<p>there r a few people i know who r so stuck up because they think theyre the smartest kids ever....
drives me insane
just really hate people like that, thinking that the world revolves around them just because theyre so smart</p>