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Some of my classmates can be pretty intense, but I can’t imagine any of them doing that! When I had tonsillitis and had to catch up on chemistry, I photocopied parts from my most organised friend’s book. If she had put in false information because I’d asked for her notes, that would be really low.</p>
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<p>Definitely. I still feel that way now sometimes. However, as sad as it is, there really is no need at my school to be so competitive, so I’m becoming more and more complacent, if you will.</p>
<p>My school isn’t really that competitive, so I help people most of the time. But I’ll admit, sometimes I keep certain things to myself or don’t give some people a little push that could make them fully understand something or influence them into doing something. </p>
<p>We don’t have class rank, but I guess they determine a class Valedictorian and Salutatorian by GPA when the senior class graduates.</p>
<p>gossip backstsb but no hiding hw or fake lecture notes</p>
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<p>Yeah, my school is kind of like that too. We have about 10 people who are really high up there academically, maybe 20-30 people right below them, and everyone else parties all day. Except the partiers are now trying to make up for slacking off all during high school and are suddenly invading all the AP classes, sitting in the back, and refusing to participate in discussions. Idk, sometimes I feel like the interpersonal competition can be pretty intense, but no one ever talks about it, it’s pretty under the surface–which makes it a little scary to me. We don’t rank (at all–not even by percentage) and we don’t have valedictorian or salutatorian… I almost wish we did sometimes. It would take away a lot of the confusion and silent speculation.</p>
<p>There’s no competition that extreme at our school, but you gotta think with regional admins and peers being in similar situations as you, they have to be some of your closest competition, right?</p>
<p>my school is competitive but not messed up like that.</p>
<p>friends are always supportive and willing to help each other out if their time allows it</p>
<p>Wow, I’m really surprised to hear that a lot of CCers’ schools aren’t as competitive. Sure, my school is definitely not the “average” school, but I always accepted my school’s competitive culture as the norm for all semi-selective high schools.</p>
<p>I’d really love to hear your experiences and opinions on this topic in general. Before creating this thread, I was surprised to see that no previous thread on CC had specifically addressed this topic before.</p>
<p>How do you handle competition from secretive classmates? Are you one of those “secretively competitive” people?</p>
<p>wow I didn’t even realize people could be that competitive. Especially like fake lecture notes. I don’t honestly think I could handle that, I would transfer out. school is stressful/busy enough as it is, and relationships with people are really important for mental sanity/happiness. </p>
<p>I guess my school is so stressful that we all work together all the time- otherwise almost no one would do well.
I’m also lucky to have my friends- honest people I can trust with anything.</p>
<p>The fake lecture notes this is crazy. O_O
How do you actually make friends in that environment? I can’t imagine it.</p>
<p>The closest I’ve come to that is my friend not talking to me about anything college-related since we’re both applying to Yale, but that’s not even near the stuff you mentioned.</p>
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<p>What the heck? Why didn’t she just explain what happened (and why didn’t you or someone else act as a witness?) The thief should have been expelled and the student should not have been penalized.
That all sounds just horrible. My school has a disproportionately large amount of smart people and none of them do anything at all like this (we go out of our way to help each other get better grades). I can’t believe people at your school are like this, it’s amazing that people can be so selfish. They’re probably not even that smart, just enjoy making other people miserable.</p>