<p>Are your friends as into acedemics as you? I used to have a friend who I competed with when it came to grades, but he moved. Its kind of hard to get motivated when you've already got the best grades and no one around you shows any interest.</p>
<p>me and my best friend are in the top two spots in our school... we take the same top classes, compete for top grades, and keep each other motivated, while still being able to have a sense of humor about it. a little healthy competition is a good thing, i think. especially since i got the number one spot :)</p>
<p>at my school everybody obsesses over grades (well, almost everybody)</p>
<p>but our school doesn't rank, so everybody just goes for straight 'A's</p>
<p>lux perpetua43: when you say keep each other motivated do you mean to say: split our homework, cheat off of each other? :)</p>
<p>Our school really isn't very competitive at all, yea we want to do our best, but at the same time we don't work very hard. Also, somewhere after 10th grade we really didn't bother comparing grades any more. Though at least we all ended up where we wanted to go, so I'm glad none of us had to be very competitive to get there.</p>
<p>haha on occasion we do give each other a little help, but its more of a "who can get the highest grade on this test" kind of thing. we even take bets, though both of us are too cheap to ever pay out :)</p>
<p>Not here. I do have Asian friends who motivate me to work though. There are only certain people I feel competitive around.</p>
<p>Oh man, in middle school, I used to have a friend who competed with me, but I wasn't into that kind of academic competition stuff. Haha. When we got our tests and quizzes back, she'd be like, "What did YOU get?" In the end, I'd end up hiding my scores from her, whether it was higher or lower than hers because she got a bit obsessive.</p>
<p>There's less people to compete with in high school (for me), but I do have a friend or two that are into academics. They don't show it though, which is a good thing because I hate those people that talk about grades and scores all the time, like as if they had nothing better to say.</p>
<p>This forum is insane. People literally dedicate their lives to school and college admissions.</p>
<p>the only people i feel motivated and competitive around are those arrogand pricks who brag about their grades and who think they're the best and the brightest. i have some "friends" like that. i jut always want to shut them up. i also have friends that are embarassed to tell me about their success and never make a big deal of it. i like them a lot and never try to compete with them.</p>
<p>yes everyone at my school is psycho competitive. IF we ranked people would be blackmailed, beaten, killed, etc.</p>
<p>I'm not really into academics, I just get the job done. That said, most of my friends don't and get really low grades. No one is competitive and we help each other out.</p>
<p>However, there is this one girl at our school who we generally dispise because of her arrogance and so-on. I remember one instance where she was upset that they dropped the honors section for english, so all that was left was academic and AP [and as a result the AP classes woulda be flooded which was known to all], and so she said, "Couldn't there be a super-AP" and then sort of laughed and everyone gave her the worst look. So generally we are very competitive against her, but not amongst ourselves, and we just made sure that someone was always beating her, then when she finally got saluditorian she blamed it on taking band [though she was too far regardless], and then when it was her against me for Princeton [her dream school since being in the uterus], when she was rejected she merely brushed it off and was just happy to go to Stevens. So yes we are mean to her, but hmmm, guess that's human nature, and though I feel sorry for some of my actions against her, hmmm oh well...</p>
<p>Nope. some of them try to pull me down with them... I guess you can't call those friends. o well. I sometimes just ignore them when they make stupid remarks. There's a few that motivates me to do well.</p>
<p>i used to have a "friend" who always asked about my grades...... i just dont think its that friendly = = i dont know... it feels weird even though i had better grades most of the time..(i did...) so glad i dont see her anymore.... - - well she was always so serious</p>
<p>My best friend is at RSI.</p>
<p>Out of my group of friends I get the best grades/test scores, which is pretty sad considering my stats are below average for THIS website =)</p>
<p>Most of my friends are not the academic type, but the party and play sports type. Most of whom will end up in a community college after H.S., lol.</p>
<p>I began cracking down on academics at the end of senior year--sad and depressing, but I somehow managed to get into LA, UCSD, Harvey Mudd, etc with a 3.56 weighted GPA at the time of applications (3.95 wGPA after senior year [4.8/4.67 wgpa resp by sem]).</p>
<p>Now, I act as if I'm some GLC/DC and provide counseling to incoming seniors. I began doing research on a myriad of colleges after I had been accepted/rejected (Cal >:{) to schools, so I wish I hadn't procrastinated to such an extreme.</p>
<p>make the best of what you got.</p>
<p>Some of my graduating buddies were really into academics, i.e. participating in many academic competitions and doing projects, but they were never competitive and just went to the local state college even though they could've easily went to at least a top 20 college. As far as my class goes, there is one guy who's really great but doesn't seem to be obsessed with it. Another girl seems obsessed with getting that 4.0 but she doesn't try to get the hardest classes possible. So I guess I'm the most academically obsessed guy in my group.</p>