<p>If you were the most popular guy in high school, can you become the jerk that has no true friends in college?</p>
<p>If you were a complete loner in high school, can you become the guy that everyone invites to college parties?</p>
<p>Do people in college really not care about your social status in high school? Not even your roommate(s) or potential frat brothers? Is it because it is hard to find out or that they are genuinely not interested?</p>
<p>Hard to find out and they don’t really care.</p>
<p>No, they don’t. But it’s not that simple; usually someone will be popular/unpopular in high school for a reason (acting certain ways, personality, etc.). </p>
<p>If that reason doesn’t change upon entering college, then I wouldn’t expect your social status to change either. </p>
<p>To put it simply; no, your past doesn’t matter. But unless you make an effort to be different, the past will continue into the present.</p>
<p>Couldn’t have said it better myself, pandem.</p>
<p>Of course they don’t care, why in the world should they?</p>
<p>I have to disagree with pandem somewhat, the reasons a person is popular in HS are not often the reasons people are popular in college. And colleges are so gigantic that you really have to be a major athletic star or already-established celebrity to be well-known among the other students. I’d say athletic ability is the only thing that makes a person popular in both HS and college. A lot of people who are popular in HS are popular for reasons that appeal to fifteen-year-olds. Those people come across as immature in college.</p>
<p>Pandem just meant that a popular person in HS will have a better social life in college because they are probably outgoing/have a great personality</p>
<p>How would they know? Clean slate. </p>
<p>I judge people based on how they are in the “now”, unless they did something really horrible to me in the past :p…which I don’t think anyone has (yet). No one cares if so-and-so rejected you in high school or anything stupid like that…</p>
<p>I agree with ^'s statement. </p>
<p>To be honest, I had no social life in high school and I made tons of friends my first year in college. Whenever we talked about high school, I admitted that I had no friends in high school and they were shocked. They didn’t care about my past though. I don’t know about you guys but all the kids that were dbags in high school and though they were the **** don’t have many friends in college. They seem to always come back to their hometown… karma is a *****…</p>
<p>Can’t you tell pretty easily just by going on the person’s Facebook profile? ie. the ones with pictures of partying were probably popular in high school…</p>
<p>Then lock your damn pictures so that only you can see them, its not that hard.</p>
<p>They’ll probably find out who you were in high school.</p>
<p>If someone is the socially awkward weirdo in high school, chances are they’ll still be a socially awkward weirdo in college. Unless you’re one of those people who can change their personality over the summer.
Not to suggest that it doesn’t happen or that your college experience will be identical to your high school experience. It’s usually the opposite, however, if you’re talking about how people receive your personality then that’s unlikely to change. </p>
<p>Now whether they’ll care…also unlikely. You can be the socially awkward weirdo in college and nobody is likely going to pay you much mind or go out of their way to throw rocks at you.</p>
<p>It also depends on connections that go way back. For example, the same clique of friends who were friends in middle/elementary school that continue to dominate the social aspect of high school</p>
<p>I dont think so considering there really isn’t any cliques in college.</p>