<p>I'd say 70% of my friends are in the bottom half of our class ranking. I could care less about how "smart" they are; if they're someone I can talk to and have fun with, everything else pretty much doesn't matter. </p>
<p>I can see that if most of your friends are "smart" and the rationale is that they are in most of your classes, that's cool. But if you're some elitist prick, it probably explains why you have little friends, albeit smart ones, in the first place.</p>
<p>Two of my best friends are probably the bottom half. My friendships are basically interest based.</p>
<p>I agree with J245, i mean honestly do you really sit down and think omg so and so has lower grades than me we do not match. I have a diversity of friends, some that do okay some that do pretty good and some that are well beyond their age. If you judge people based on their grades and like numbers, I am sorry but you are some of the most shady people ever. A friend is a friend, you should judge them by how they treat you not how they do in school.</p>
<p>^^I agree, but at the same time you are no friend if you don't encourage your friend who isn't doing so well to do better in school.</p>
<p>im in the top 5% of my class and a lot of my freinds are in the botom 50% but if i wasn't involved in sports i probably would have never met them</p>
<p>Your theory does actually have its merits. I did have plenty of friends who didn't get into the higher of my two safety schools, but I met them in classes which were not high level classes--they were in my advisory, my health class, my drama class, etc. A lot of people go into high school and make friends with the kids who they end up in loads of classes with, so if you're one to take the upper level classes, you'll end up with a tight group of kids in those classes.</p>
<p>That was not very coherent. I apologize.</p>
<p>I don't discriminate based on intelligence, and certainly a rank in my school has absolutely no basis for measure of intelligence. Some of my friends didn't graduate this year, and it's not because they're stupid, they're just unmotivated. They're friends regardless, and amazing people to know. I feel pity for people who exclude other people based on something as trivial as rank, it seems like their friendships are phony and overall diversity is lowered. I wouldn't be friends with them.</p>
<p>Hm. The friendships at my school are more based on class. All of my friends are around the same financial situation.</p>
<p>But of course, the more money you have, the easier it is to succeed in the public education system.</p>
<p>yes...whats wrong with that?
do you seriously pick your friends based on their intelligence and ranking?</p>
<p>a lot of my friends from football are in the bottom 25 or so</p>
<p>my friend is bottom 25%, he got a higher act than me :</p>
<p>he got a 27 act with a 30 on math with no calc</p>
<p>lets just say adhd didnt help him in high school</p>
<p>I had a bunch of friends in the bottom 25% of the class. It doesn't mean they were not smart ( most of them are reasonably intelligent, and capable of being in the top 10%), it just meant they were lazy as hell.</p>
<p>most of my friends are in the top 12.5% of our class
theres some who r in the top 25% but nothing below that</p>
<p>The vast majority of my friends are at least top 25%, but it's not because of their ranks I hang out with them. They're all very nice to be around, and intelligence is a bonus!</p>
<p>we should euthanize anyone who scored below a 30 on their ACT</p>
<p>Anybody who won't hang out with people who aren't in the top of their class just because of that are probably full of themselves. Grades don't necessarily mean intelligence. The person counts too.</p>
<p>one of my best friends has a 1.3 GPA. Not going to college. I have recently found it harder and harder to hang out with him because our interests are diverging. Oh well. He's a really cool guy though.</p>
<p>Most of my friends are in the top 85% of their classes. The ironic thing is that I'm the valedictorian of my class and the salutatorian is not that close of a friend to me, but I talk to him.</p>
<p>Actually most of my friends are probably in the bottom 60-70% of the class or something, while I'm top 10%. I really think intelligence doesn't matter that much within friendships, and there's also a higher chance that being friends with someone extremely intelligent as opposed to someone of average intelligence can lead to a relationship that is full of pretenses as they can manipulate and use others more easily (Not that most of the intelligent people on CC are like that, I'll bet that most of you aren't). It's also a better preparation for the social scene in the real world if you don't let intelligence get in the way of making friendships.</p>
<p>Actually, most of my friends are in the top 20% of their classes. I knew the graduating classes valedictorian.</p>