<p>Read the first post, the rest is tl,dr type stuff. </p>
<p>Dude your friends sound like total asswipes. Sorry, but you know what? IT HAPPENS! “intellectual” people tend to end up being competitive asswipes. Not everyone, just a lot of them. </p>
<p>Best thing you can do, is ignore it. Sometimes, that’ll **** them off and they won’t talk to you, in which case they’re not worth it anyway. Sometimes, I liked that about “ordinary” friends in the sense that they don’t care about competing with you, but then they make you feel like a social outcast XD Crap… ■■■. XD</p>
<p>Edit: Just be glad you’re almost out of HS. It gets better And go to a uni where they’re not going! rofl.</p>
<p>I have the same issue too. My friends and I are all close in rank and in all of the same classes. It gets so frustrating when test scores come out and everything. They thrive on comparison and aren’t happy about anything unless they’ve done better than everybody else. I dread college application/acceptance time in that respect.</p>
<p>Lol…just be thankful that this isn’t an ongoing cycle since middle school (I guess, everyone wanted to be valedictorian in 8th grade?). I’m still stuck with the same people and now the stakes are much higher, everyone is acting up and then you start questioning who are true friends are and what not. </p>
<p>I think it’s kinda sad when people do that just to gain some academic edge for the sake of college admissions. </p>
<p>I can’t tell you how many times they’re constantly trying to figure out what my grades are (and they stay after school and when the bio teacher leaves for a minute, they start flipping through her gradebook and tracking my grades down.) I’m just like, “Really? Are you that insecure?” Even when I got sick and was hospitalized, they gave me the wrong homework assignment and didn’t tell me any tests/quizzes I was going to have. Thankfully, I found out through other people, but yeah, it comes to show how “competitive” they are. It’s more sad when they play teachers as well. </p>
<p>Same thing with the whole PSAT score. They didn’t do so well - and I barely put any effort into it and did decent. They gave me the silent treatment the whole week, but now it makes complete sense as to why they don’t do so well on standardized tests. </p>
<p>Truthfully, I could care less about the answers to the tests/quizzes OR knowing the questions beforehand just so I could have an slight advantage. I never did that - and I still manage to do better than them most of the time. I don’t even ask anyone for answers either - they could all they like (and I know they do). I just don’t - you’re not gonna have advantage on the actual SAT/AP test, so why not swallow your ego and feelings of self-entitlement and just study the material? </p>
<p>It does create a lot of unneeded stress. I hope they realize there is much more to life than just grades/college admission. Personally, I think they’re all intelligent in their own way - I just don’t see why they need to do that.</p>
<p>Why do you think that we want to be rewarded? We just want to help people out and make others happy.</p>
<p>Anyway, at anyone else’s school are the “intellectuals” really not that naturally gifted? The boy who everyone thinks is the smartest guy around got a 1700 on his SAT. In fact, no one in the IB program (save one guy who is relatively likable) got above a 1900. They’re just grinds who have tricked others into thinking they’re brilliant because they work 3 times longer on everything than everyone else. They’re really not that smart, and they’re starting to realize it as their counselors tell them that schools like Stanford are out of reach. I feel like this may be why they harbor so much resentment towards successful people who aren’t in the IB program. They think, “why does he/she have a better shot? I worked so much harder!” and because of this they act rudely towards us non-IBers.</p>
<p>So apparently every poster on this thread is the high-ranking, doesn’t care about competiton, doesn’t try but gets the best grades and always helps others type of student. One’s own evaluation of his or her self should definitely be taken with a grain of salt as is so comically evidenced in this thread.</p>
<p>I’m “friends” with lots of other freshman (my grade), but I hang out with a ton of Sophomores/Juniors/Seniors. Mostly Juniors though, and 1 other freshman.</p>
<p>Since we’re in all different grades, it makes it easy and harder. Easier because we don’t have competition in that way. Harder because we don’t have classes together and don’t graduate together… Because we’re in different grades, I think that we aren’t competitive, and when one of my friends gets into a good college, everyone is happy… I don’t think there are any bad feelings (and I usually pick up on those things).</p>
<p>I tell my classmates what they need to know on the test (if they ask), or help them with the homework (like tutoring??). I don’t give straight-out answers. If they studied what I told them to study, they should do fine.</p>
<p>hm. This is SO late, but jersey… I guess you’re kinda right that I was a little presumptous. But I don’t think (although I made it seem so) that I’m more qualified or accomplished than my friends. Actually, I said that I was lazier but luckier. </p>
<p>It doesn’t even matter anymore cause none of us are friends anymore.</p>
<p>It isn’t like that with my friends right now, even though one of my good friends was a little upset that she lost the tie with me for Rank 1 because of some graduation req that I got exempt from that took a small toll on her GPA. She wasn’t mad at me though, just the bureaucracy and stupidity that made her take Consumer Ed. </p>
<p>The senior class got a little catty though. Twelve kids got into NU out of the thirteen that applied. Number 13 was pretty P.O at everybody for a while, especially since he was friends with a bunch of them and was definitely not a weak applicant. Other kids talked crap about how one guy got into Yale ONLY because of Affirmative Action (he’s Colombian) and didn’t actually deserve to get in. It happens… They’re all friends again now though, and everybody is happy with their schools (except one kid who got into Northwestern and uChicago but got virtually no aid so can’t go)</p>
And go to a uni where they’re not going! rofl.</p>