<p>Who is clearly in the bottom half of your class?</p>
<p>What about the bottom 75%</p>
<p>I seem to notice that a lot of the friendships in grade school are often intelligence-based (this is the first level of distinction anyhow). After groups sort themselves as according to intelligence, they then sort themselves as according to other standards (such as interest, being male/female, etc). It seems that most intelligent people want most of their friends to meet a baseline level of intelligence. Of course, they may have several friends who are not particularly intelligent - but that is only a small proportion of all of their friends.</p>
<p>One thing i notice is that whereas friendships in grade school seem intelligence-based, they aren't intelligence-based elsewhere. After all, most posters on CC don't make a lot of friends on CC. :p And friendships in college are almost always interest-based.</p>
<p>Of course intelligence and grades are not absolutely correlated. I'm not specifically asking for class rank - I'm just asking for examples where you clearly recognize your friends to not be as intelligent as the others.</p>
<p>I went for the most attractive percentage of the class. Sadly that's the bottom 50%. I don't really care about surrounding myself with high school "intellectuals" because most of them are just concerned with getting As in their subject materials. They're not necessarily concerned with expanding their knowledge in other ways.</p>
<p>Not to say that he isn't dumb, but in your friends defense rank is hardly an indicator of intelligence. Work ethic plays a significant role in class rank. I have a highly intelligent friend with Aspergers who does not do well at all in school. I do agree however that intelligence does play a fairly significant role in the friendships we form. People of similar intelligence most likely can relate to each other the best and share a slightly more similar set of interests.</p>
<p>I have a friend who got 18% in Spanish and 15% in Math. So technically that would be something like bottom 99th percentile in our class. I personally don't draw a line based on people's standing in school and what I care the most are their affability and personality. My "smart" friends are always full of themselves ;(</p>
<p>Most of my friends are in the bottom. Honestly, it does not matter to me. People are people, not numbers and rankings are not an indicator of intelligence.</p>
<p>I hate people who are "smart" and think their **** doesn't stink.</p>
<p>My best friends are all in the top 10% (approximately), I have friends who aren't but I can't have a conversation with them unless its about sports (or they're hot girls =).</p>
<p>I have one friend who has a learning disability. You could never guess this from talking with her, though. She's very intelligent, she just has dyslexia as well as a few other learning disabilities (she doesn't like to discuss them). Due to her natural intelligence and diligence, she's ranked MUCH higher than other students without learning disabilities (who are, not to sound completely terrible, stupid). There was a truly idiotic girl in our homeroom a year ago who went down with Friend and I to learn our ranks. She was really angry to learn that she was ranked below Friend because Friend has a learning disability. This didn't shock me at all, though!</p>
<p>I generally just hang out with honors kids. PE class was disgusting - - lots of kids didn't even dress for PE - - I'd guess they are part of the lower 50%. I avoided them.</p>
<p>I have friends in the bottom half of the class, but my closer friends are all in the top half simply because I see them more often in classes and have more in common with them.</p>
<p>I definitely have several friends who were in the bottom 50% of my class (and 25% and 10% and maybe even 5%)... however, my class consisted of ~60 people, so that wasn't too difficult to manage having really.</p>
<p>my friends are people not numbers one has all c's, but their grades don't affect mine so i really have no problem with my friends and their so call lack of intelligence</p>