<p>My best friend is not really into academics, in fact she loathes subjects of all kinds, but loves getting good grades just to seem better than others. Then when I got my SAT score back she started to care about those too but still ended up w/ a 1630 and blamed it on not studying :P. In general, she feels better if I get lower grades than her or the same as her so she knows I didn't "beat" her. Other than that she is a great friend, lol. I just can't wait to see the look on her face when she finds out that I am (if I do end up being) val.</p>
<p>competition is the best motivation for me. I think next year, I should place bets with my friends about who gets better grades on a test. I'll stay up all night studying for bragging rights b/c I'm weird like that. Even if I don't care as much about the grade.</p>
<p>Last year I switched schools for high school. In Middle School I was the smartest person and everyone knew it. In fact there were only 3 of us that were really smart. One of them went to a different school and me and the other went to another. </p>
<p>I figured that going into high school there were going to be tons of smarter kids because everyone cares about their grades. </p>
<p>After about the first week I was freaking out to my mom telling her that everyone is smarter, but after the first marking period I was clearly one of "the smart people" at least the smartest in all my classes. </p>
<p>Since I am only a rising sophmore I don't know what exactly the rest of the competition, but I know that some of my friends that weren't in my classes got really good grades. I guess I'll find out next year when we all take AP Euro! They are really going to motivate me. </p>
<p>I find that competition is good for me (part of the reason I joined this website). However I don't take it too far, if my friend needs help on something then I won't mind helping (not cheating) :)</p>
<p>Since I'm not really competitive and often care little about my grades, I'd say most of my friends are more into academics than me. I helped them with their homeworks more than I ever did mine (which is pretty close to 0 times =P)</p>
<p>I think my class probably wins the award for laziest/most cooperative "honors track" students ever to walk the halls of my high school. We don't rank or know our GPAs until the middle of junior year. There is almost zero competition between us. Basically all of us get along, no matter what group we're in. Our academic lives are important to us, but we all know that if we miss a homework or need help on an assignment, someone's there to help out. It's like
"Oh, hey, I didn't do the chem. Can I borrow it?"
"Yeah, but I need it back 3rd period to give it to ______."
"Okay, I'll pass it around."
"You owe me one, though."</p>
<p>So basically we all work together. Some people don't, but who cares about them? They're the ones that want competition and compare grades. I give out homeworks to the first person who asks me, and then it gets passed around. I don't give out my grades anymore, because people started getting competitive with me. People are then surprised when I do better than them for the semester. One thing about our class is that if you tell a score to one person, everyone knows by the next period. We're a tight-knit community. The class above us, though...woo they are super cut-throat.</p>
<p>I can't think of a single person at my school that isn't concerned about their grades and overly concerned with getting into a good college. </p>
<p>That being said, I probably study the least out of anyone in my grade lol so my friends are definitely into academics more than I am... they're all really smart. I don't know why I hang out with such smart people haha sometimes I feel stupid but w/e, they're more interesting than stupid people</p>
<p>I have a 2130 on the SATs and that's one of the lowest scores out of our group</p>
<p>People at my school aren't openly competitive but just by the nature of everyone you know they compare themselves to everyone else. We don't rank though (besides val&sal) so that helps a bit</p>
<p>Friends? :confused: What are those?</p>
<p>Well, no, they're not really. I remember a guy who used to compete with me on math tests and he ended up getting an F while I got an A+. That was hilarious. I pretty much help my friends with stuff. They hardly help me back. Compared to me, they're hardly concerned about grades and the like.</p>
<p>People at my school are insanely competative. They go to all extents to get to the top. Most of my actual, true friends...not just people I spend with....aren't too into academics...which can bother me at times but it works</p>
<p>I have a different take on this question...As an undergrad, we all wanted good grades and were competitive about it - frendly competition. But it was a matter of who could do the least amount of work and still get the A. That's what bothered me. No one cared about the material - except me. They wore me down. Because it's hard to be interested in something when noone else is. It didn't help that I was 10 years older than most of the people in my class at the time :)</p>
<p>I'm hoping Grad school will be different.</p>
<p>i go to a "public elite high school" as determined by Newsweek, which basically means everyone is psycho. my friends are nerds and they play cranium for fun.....i seriously can't wait til college.</p>
<p>I have this REALLY annoying friend who thinks he's like a genius, when.....he's just average, if not below. Like I'll be on the phone with him and suddenly he'll be like, "Oh, I just got more letters from colleges begging me to go to their school." It's kind of funny because he doesn't realize that they are generic letters that everyone gets.</p>
<p>Basically, all my friends aren't that smart and could careless about grades. It makes it enjoyable to hang out with them and not talk about school.</p>
<p>One of my "friends" has the highest average in our class. He plays 3 big varsity sports (hockey, football, baseball), and he's good at all of them. Even though he has only 1 AP under his belt (and a SAT II Chemistry, which he got a 750 on), he also works as a skating teacher, hockey ref, and volunteer firefighter. His bench press is 245...</p>
<p>Hi!
There aren't too many motivated people in my school.
The kids in my school are either in fact very motivated or unmotivated... so the very motivated people keep me trying. But i don't particularly have any "best friends" that go to my school. However my best friend is very motivated but goes to another school faraway from here :P</p>
<p>Yes, my friends care about academics just as much as I do. They are brains I tell you, brains!!! (far more smarter than I am!) But everyone has good study habits & gets very good grades. Maybe that's why we all get along so well...</p>
<p>The kids in my AP classes complained about getting "too much" work. And, that was because the teacher asked them to READ.</p>
<p>LOL, that sounds exactly like my senior year, b/c our junior year was a complete joke [even though everyone: parents, teachers, etc. were telling us that this was the year we would work the hardest] so that when we finally hit senior year and we had spurts of essays in all our classes we would always get them pushed back b/c we didn't care enough. My favorite is how we had a Hamlet assignment due the day we come back from winter break [something like Jan. 4th or that] and we managed to get it pushed back to [let's see, if it was near my sister's birthday] around late March, so...</p>
<p>No I Am All Alone</p>
<p>Most of my friends are more academically focused than I am, at least when it comes to grades.</p>
<p>Kay, so...everyone in our school goes to a public school or a private school in the area. It was big news when two years ago the Val went to BU. Oh boy. <em>woo</em> </p>
<p>So, no. We just are all usually happy to get by with our As and Bs. We help eachother a lot...small school, so we all know eachother. Passing of homework and whatnot is very common, but I don't usually partake - just not my thing. But if I blanked on an assignment, etc...I will. </p>
<p>Dedication to sports and extracurriculars is much more common than a hardcore dedication to academics...which is good in my eyes, because people find what they are passionate about that way.</p>