<p>guys, but there dumbness infects you and then you become a dumb zombie like the rest of the 95% (and below).</p>
<p>Heck, I don't even speak to relatives who weren't in the top of their class for fear of catching whatever they may have.</p>
<p>^ Relatives? thats a bit overdoing it.
I myself made as you people call '' dumb, low ranked friends''. I found out, that those types of friends only bring you trouble in the long run. You could be acknowledged for a pretegious reward in front of your whole school, while your '' dumb friend'' has the confidence to yell out anything unappropriate.
Making smart friends who has a realistic goal, only benefits you.</p>
<p>sure, my best friend</p>
<p>rank has nothing to do with intelligence</p>
<p>there's a bunch of idiots out there (a lot, actually, including ones at my school) with high ranks because they don't know anything besides getting straight A's</p>
<p>ratroll how many people have you infected by now?</p>
<p>i get what you mean... my 2 best friends are SO smart, it's sick... one is wants to be pre-med through biomed engineering and is looking into northwestern, jhu, and umich, all of which she can get in. the other is looking for business undergrad to law grad and looking at notre dame, wharton, etc. she just as smart too... i think its just who we're stuck with in classes.</p>
<p>we're friends because we have every class together. i can say last year, i had 5 classes with one of them and the other 4, and 3 with both.. when you get down to it, all your AP and honor classes, have basically the same people in it. so they're your friends because you don't have time to take any other classes and meet new people.</p>
<p>i don't know who my "dumbest" friend would be, i mean they're all smart in their own way... but class rank wise... gosh i realy don't know.. you tend not to ask those types of friends that.. its more a "smart" person thing to give out ranks and gpas... between my best friends, i have the lowest gpa, rank, test scores.. i know, i feel GREAT!</p>
<p>some of the smart kids ( top 5%, even though Im part of the top 5%) pretend their "cool" when it comes across as totally fake, and I guess thats why other ppl dont like em too. I also see most of em as having no real worldy interests, while I personally actually have deep-interests and motivations while they only have rubix-cubes</p>
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<p>I make it a point to all speak to people in the top 10.. I've used that to my advantage sometimes sadly (giving them the wrong tips on homework help etc... so i can boost my rank) right now my rank is 3rd.. and my best friends are 1st and 4th... but pretty soon ILL be first while they're under me bwahaha. </p>
<p>Please don't make fun of thats just how i am :)</p>
<p>BTW.. I did TRY taking to someone who was ranked 146th but he didn't even UNDERSTAND simple concepts of Calculus BC so im not even going to try with anyone outside of top 25....</p>
<p>I agree that class rank doesn't correlate to actual intellectual ability (I'm a slacker, and one of my favorite friends has never exerted himself at all due to his severe depression, but could be frighteningly brilliant if he ever had). </p>
<p>However, this has no bearing on the question at hand, which is are CC'ers friends with lower achieving students (the underlying assumption here being that CC'ers are, by and large, overachievers or high end thinkers). Personally, I had many friends who were in the lower achievment sections (most were below me, only a handful were substantially so). This was partially a product of my own flaw of feeling the need to dominate/ my arrogance and sense of competitiveness- I have a compulsion to "win" sometimes stronger than most. My closest friends, however, and the ones I hang out with regularly, are all roughly my equal or superior.</p>
<p>It should also be noted that I went to a top 50 public highschool, and even some of the dumbest kids are better than at some schools (unfortunate though that is for those schools :( )</p>
<p>im the dumb one among my friends</p>
<p>I have two friends, one is in the top half, and one is in the bottom half. I (hope) believe I belong to the top half, too. Friend A (top half) and I often get angry at Friend B (bottom half) because we don’t think she’s applying herself enough (drawing, doodling, reading manga, and sleeping during class). </p>
<p>I think she’s awesome usually because she’s so carefree and keeps me and Friend A from dying because of stress. </p>
<p>I don’t know. I think you have to have friends with different interests, values, and priorities to get the best out of life. Balance, you know? </p>
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<p>WAO. This board is so dead. Just realized that it has been 2 years -.</p>
<p>haha, I just noticed that as well. This is an interesting and polemic topic though and I’m glad you debunked it. =)</p>
<p>Neways, I have a couple of friends who aren’t in top 25%, but at times they make me laugh by just talking about random pointless things. I don’t really like most of my friends, who are in top 10%; I think they are very superficial.</p>
<p>um yeah…almost all of my friends are in the bottom 60% or so</p>
<p>Aw I feel so mean 
but my best friend is ranked 116 out of 253. Idk actual percentage.</p>
<p>when i was in middle school i hung out with people who really didnt put any effort into anything, were just lazy, and even though i still speak to them rarely, my friendship with them affected my grades greatly. Now though, all my friends are different, im friends with the number 1 student out of the 150 of the senior class, but im also friends with a girl who got kicked out of the IB and put into regular 12th grade, and was then pushed back to 11th grade! I dont discriminate with friends, but I do know whos smart versus whos not, but they all have their virtues so theres no problem</p>
<p>how am i supposed to know who’s in the bottom half of my class</p>
<p>Most of my high school friends ended up going to Ivies, were in the top 20% of the class, and were all nerdy math/science lovers. It’s rather odd that they decided to accept me since I am no where near as intelligent as most of my peers.</p>
<p>Some of my friends now are high school drop outs–which doesn’t mean that they are entirely stupid, yet I do believe they’ve made irresponsible choices. I only have one or two “dumb” friends. One of them I can only hang around for two days before I start going insane. I’m 100% sure she was in the bottom half of the class.</p>
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<p>Agreed. I’ve noticed some of the people who don’t so much care about high school talk about subjects in which I am like, “How do you know about that?” So many of my senior friends are in the bottom of their classes. I don’t even think I have any senior friends in the tops. While some of them are idiots, some are pretty smart. Within juniors my friends are in the top (I think; we really don’t know our ranks until senior). I have a friend with a 1.9 GPA I believe? lol.</p>
<p>And I also have noticed that many of the people in the top of the class hang out. =P</p>
<p>Anyways, yes I have plenty of friends with a low class rank.</p>
<p>Why does it matter what their rank is? I’m friends with people whose rank go from top to bottom and I can have a good time with all of them. Judging someone based on thier class rank is stupid. After you’re done w/ hs, nobody cares about class rank anymore, b/c then ur at college and u have to start all over agin.</p>