<p>lol, that’s not true at all. Since you seem to be so fixated on scores and grades, riddle me this: I scored a 2350 on the SAT and 800s on the subject tests, yet failed chemistry in tenth grade, never got an A in math, and barely passed physics. How come? Because I simply didn’t study enough in school.</p>
<p>Performance in high school depends on effort, not ‘talent’ or ‘intelligence’ or natural ability or anything like that. (Not that I think the SAT measures any of these things.) It doesn’t matter how smart you (think you) are if you never do your homework. At least not at schools like mine, where homework is tough and you get severely penalized for missing it. I assume that’s also the case at the OP’s school. The fact that you know people who get amazing grades with little effort says more about the rigor of the school than about their abilities.*</p>
<p>Also, lol @ “[an] ACT score […] that’s even higher than mine” You make it sound like it’s an anomaly or something.</p>
<p>*btw, I knew a kid who insisted on coming off as totally uncaring about school, presumably because being known as the resident anarchist hippie pothead was some sort of badge of honor in his eyes, but secretly worked his butt off. He just made his friends believe he never studied. True story.</p>