<p>its harder to be friends with people in a lower rank. You don’t get in the same classes as them and then you diverge in interests. Like when I had to take a regular class, mandatory for graduation, i didn’t know most of the people there since I took AP classes.
For me I was friends with guys since 8th grade and 4 yrs later, we chilled but i am in the top 10% and they in the bottom 10th. A few of them had to go to a remedial continuation school since they were doing so bad(district policy). So when I am in my ap chem class, I am kindof the odd one.
But as they say, “Sleep with the dogs and you will catch fleas”. Don’t let others drag you down. I look back and see my wasted potential.</p>
<p>I would think this would be a fairly common occurence for anyone who’s an athlete, especially in the major sports.</p>
<p>About half my friends are probably in the bottom half, rank wise. Some because they’re lazy, others just because they aren’t interested, but still, it doesn’t matter, because we just all like hanging out.</p>
<p>Everyone is at least of average intelligence at my school since I’m at a moderately selective private school; nobody is truly dumb. That being said, I friends with the girl ranked last in my class however, I’m not extremely close to her because she’s not in too many of classes. However, most of my closest friends are either as smart as me or smarter just because I’m in more of their classes and we seem to have similar personalities.</p>
<p>Well if the saying “Show me your friends today, and I’ll show you who you’ll become tomorrow” is true, then I would want to hang out with “smarter” people than myself.</p>
<p>Big facepalm to whoever chooses their friends based on ranking.</p>
<p>Many of my friends are in the bottom 50%. Why? Because they’re just lazy and don’t do homework AT ALL. I’m the one who forces them to do vital projects/science labs/whatver if they are crucial to their grade, unlike daily math homework or something.</p>
<p>But they’re smarter than almost all of the people in the top half. They don’t have excessive pride that makes them want to beat everyone at anything. And they’re super nice. And guess what? I’d say most people in my grade respect them as much as they respect the top 10% because they aren’t cutthroat jerks who’d throw anyone else under the bus just to get an A in a class, unlike many others.</p>
<p>But in regards to the bottom half who are just dumb to begin with, yes I’m friends with them too. Some are really nice and friendly. Some are the interesting art kids. Some are just downright crazy.</p>
<p>I like everybody. But, again, my small tight-knit group of friends are the lazy, intelligent ones.</p>
<p>Most of my friends are probably around the bottom of the class. I don’t care, they are good people. (One guy in my class was embarrassed to tell me his rank the other day because he’s 90th in the class and I’m 4th. He was surprised when I told him most of my friends are around 200-300th in our class of 375 people.)</p>
<p>I don’t think that I do. Although I remember one person that I knew that was saying that she was ranked like 500/550 in our homeroom one time.</p>
<p>Class rank has hardly anything to do with intelligence. The valedictorian spelt fourteenth WRONG in this tournament, that speaks for itself. The only thing she does is lock herself in her room for 5+ hours a day studying. I, myself, am like 110th out of 576, but I’m smarter than the majority(I’d be in top10% easily if I bothered studying or working hard like the top 10%ers in my school)</p>
<p>Now that I think about it I don’t think I really have any friends outside of the top 25%… like at all. But that is just because my classes consist of only the top 20% or so…</p>
<p>Yeah. And I also have friends that have never gotten a B …EVER. Not even in like elementary school.
I mean, I don’t judge people based on their ranking in school haha. All of them are intelligent…some of them just don’t try as hard and don’t take as many AP classes. Others are realllly good at some subjects but completely fail at others and that really lowers their GPA. Especially if it’s in math because unless you’re in AP CalcAB or BC (which you wont be if you’re not good at math), math is a regular class with no extra weight like AP classes so getting a C in there makes a pretty big dent in your GPA. Plus, there are those kids who take all regular classes except 1 or 2 REALLY easy AP classes (not history or english or anything but classes like Human Geography) to boost their GPA so they can get all As. Most of my friends take a least several challenging classes, even if they don’t do well. At least they want to learn (some of them just don’t want to do their hw).</p>
<p>Roughly almost all of my friends are in the bottom 1/2th of the class. I’d say roughly 3/5ths of my friends are in the bottom 1/3rd of the class. I have…two friends who are ranked decently high. So very few basically. </p>
<p>I generally don’t hang out with the “high-ranked” kids. They’re mostly all awful people who only got to where they were because they’ve discarded everything else in life except grades and buy into the general oriental mindset. </p>
<p>It sometimes gets problematic. I’ve got an all-weighted course, sp it’s problematic because almost none of my friends are in my classes. Sometimes I have one or two in a class, but many classes, I simply just don’t know anyone, or if I do, we’re on bad terms. </p>
<p>I don’t really associate with anyone in those classes either, because we don’t really want to associate with each other. I’ve generally got a reputation as being kind of a delinquent, so they generally stay away. And I don’t really enjoy their snobbiness and shallowness, so I generally stay away as well.</p>
<p>I don’t think I do. I’ve had classes with the people way above 50% since middle school, and the bottom 50% are almost all druggies.</p>
<p>I have a few friends with horrible GPAs (one’s is about .7), but these are incredibly smart people who just don’t do their work for whatever reason.</p>
<p>I also have quite a few friends who may be in the top 50% because they work hard but who aren’t very… I won’t say “smart”… but academically talented.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends are in the bottom half. Most kids in the top quarter to top ten percent of my class talk about grades, school, getting into college, etc. alllll the time and it gets annoying after a while.</p>
<p>there’s a lot of hate in this thread toward people with high grades… jealousy much?
I don’t think most people with good grades “lock themselves in their room for 5+ hours” studying, every day… Obviously there are people who study a lot, but I think this number isn’t that high and those people can be social too.
I do realize that rank doesn’t correspond with intelligence, because I am friends with many of the top ranked people in my class simply by virtue of being in many classes with them through high school, and I do realize that not all of them are really that smart, despite their rank. (Obviously this is not a blanket statement, I have friends with high ranks who are, indeed, smart)
But I think that focusing on rank is not exactly what this topic should be aimed at. I realize that the OP did refer to rank, but I think that that was just an easy way to distinguish dumber people from others, a method that I think generally does work. I think one of my character flaws is that I do view people negatively if they’re dumb, and as a result I drift away from people who I can’t have meaningful conversations with. I like being around people who are near me in intelligence, just because even silly conversations are humorous. I get the feeling that I’m rambling (and writing a really long post) but I do think that the OP is accurate in saying that people often only associate with people around their intelligence (though rank is not the best indicator of this).</p>
<p>I forgot I’m friends with a senior that’s in the 18th percentile of her class. Now, she’s headed to the local CC. 
But she has like a 2.6 and no offense, but she’s not very smart.</p>
<p>yes of course</p>
<p>i tend to avoid smart people since they tend to be arrogant so most of my friends are bottom quartile</p>