<p>I think for the most part it just happens because if you're taking honors and AP's, and obviously the less smart kids are not, then you'll naturally end up hanging out with the smarter kids. Like, I have no friends who are in comphensive ('regular', but basically means 'stupid') classes because all my classes, except grad reqs like health and art are honors or self-selective (Newspaper, Drama, etc.). However, I do have friends in honors and AP classles who regularly get C's and D's, but they still wouldn't technically be in the bottom half because they're still in honors classes.</p>
<p>I have one friend that either last or one of the last in my class</p>
<p>ME. also lmao @ ratroll's post.</p>
<p>Most of my friends are the choir kids and the kids that knew the choir kids coming into highschool. The choir kids are all smart. However, I do know some very cool people (mostly guys) who are probably not as smart as the rest of us. But those kids would probably still be in the top 50%. Our school doesn't rank anymore, so I have no idea.</p>
<p>I make friends who have the same interest as me and maintain motivation toward their future careers. Really, who gives a **** if your friend is ranked bottom of the class, friends are friends, don't have to think about it as long as the supposely ''stupid'' friend has a postive influence toward you.
Press 123 if you agree please.</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>He should be more concerned about graduating, let alone college. :O</p>
<p>Well, I'm not like "Oh, you're in the bottom half of the class--we can't be friends." It's just that I'm kinda kept away from those kids during the school day. I'm in all IB classes, so the people that I interact with tend to be very smart and motivated, and those are the people that I am friends with.</p>
<p>Rank really doesn't matter to me at all when it comes to my friends. I actually think a lot of the people in the lower half of the class are a lot more fun, but my friends who are on the top of the class keep me doing my homework just to make sure I stay in the upper part of the class with them, but when it comes to actually hanging out w/ friends, I just care about who I have more fun w/ and I can talk to.</p>
<p>I do have friends not on my intellectual level and it's kind of hard because sometimes I have to use vocab that I know they would understand and I can't use sarcasm or subtle remarks or they won't get it, lol. not trying to sound arrogant, but that's just how a few of my friends are. they aren't stupid, they just don't have the same type of humor as me so I have to adjust to their humor and way of talking. i don't even talk like some pretentious bastard but like if I start talking to some kid about music, i can't say stuff he wouldn't understand.</p>
<p>most of my "friends" are unintelligent to the brink of retardation. they joke around a lot saying that i am the stupid and that i'm weak (in general). then when i hang out with smarties, they start getting offended. many of them are going to our local community college. i still wonder how i ever befriended them...</p>
<p>Personally I dislike many of the super-smart people (Top 5%, im about top 10% or so) at my school - I find them overly arrogant, and when they bring out their rubix cubes it just makes me think "OMGNERDS" [for only some of course]</p>
<p>Most of my friends are in the bottom 50% in the class, and I'm top 1%. </p>
<p>Yay. I beat the statistics.</p>
<p>Now if rank meant something...</p>
<p>rank denotes value. so for example, a person with a rank "10" is inferior (physically, mentally, socially -- you name it) to one whose rank is "1."</p>
<p>i don't care what rank people are . i am friends with them because of their peresonalities, not because of some number on their transcripts. i think that's so dumb..outside of high school people don't judge you based on your rank either!</p>
<p>i wish everyone had a bubble over their head with their rank number in it so that everyone knew who was superior/inferior to them. it would make life much easier. =]</p>
<p>ha about all my friends are in the bottom half while I'm at least in the top 5%</p>
<p>lmao this thread is the story of my life. im fairly intelligent but i dont hang out with smart kids. ever hahahaha. i have no idea why, people always assume im pretty stupid. i guess i look dumb. then they're shocked to find i'm not. thats usually how i meet my friends haha. and its not like i dumb myself down, im always the smartest out of all my friends though. me and smart kids just dont get along. they're usually super nerdy and/or boring, orrrr they're smart and graced with like amazing athetic ability and good looks so they have this massive god complex. its lame. so if i hung out with smart folk i wouldnt usually be able to swear, talk about parties, joke very openly about sex, etc. at least at my school.</p>
<p>so i hang out with dumb kids. its not uncommon for me to help a friend with **** so they dont fail a class.</p>
<p>I most definitely do, even though we're all taking at least 1 AP next year.</p>
<p>I have some friends that are in the bottom 1/2, but most are in the top 25%, simply because I take mostly IB classes.</p>