<p>I am generally friends with the more "popular" kids. They're not stuck up or anything and they are genuine friends. However, most of them aren't in as advanced classes as I am. So, when picking schedules I have to choose my academics over being with friends and I hear about all the fun times they have in electives while I'm in mostly core classes. Has this happened to anyone else?</p>
<p>Yup. Freshman year kids take pretty much the same classes, with the only choices being honors or not. Sophomore year is the first year you can take a full AP course load, and that’s when the school begins to segregate between the AP kids and the rest. I barely see my friends from freshman year anymore.</p>
<p>I had the same problem. But now, I just keep my friends within band. I know that we’ll at least have Wind Ensemble together…</p>
<p>Eh, my issue is moreso that I’m more of a humanities minded person and my friends are Math/Science driven, so while I’m taking AP history and English, they’ll be in Honors, and while I’m in AP Environmental and Honors Pre-Cal, they’ll be in AP Physics and AP Calculus, etc. But I do have a lot of friends in the classes I take, regardless of the AP load.</p>
<p>Not really, because most of my friends are in advanced classes with me. </p>
<p>Only one isn’t, and I don’t hear any stories from him. I only have about five friends anyway 
…man I have no friends.</p>
<p>I only have one “popular” quasi-friend, who’s a lax bro.</p>
<p>He takes all ap classes though, and is smarter than me.
I get better grades since I’m a try hard but he’s got it all. Looks, athletics, smarts.
Besides that I stick with ma nerdz</p>
<p>Not really. My school is mostly full of kids who take Honors and AP courses. If I don’t have a class with them it’s because our schedules are different. We could be taking all the same classes but just have different periods.</p>
<p>It doesn’t usually happen to me because my school has limited honors classes and there’s not very much “segregation” between honors kids and non-honors kids. We don’t have honors foreign language or social studies at all.
I’ve never really had popular friends but my best friend in middle school and half of high school flunked two grades.</p>
<p>The “popular” kids at my school are the ones who take advanced classes…They’re also a quarter or more of the 100 college-bound students our class will have…A lot are also the jocks…Oh the joys of a small school…</p>
<p>But, seriously, I started a magnet school sophomore year and from then had like no classes with my actual friends. And I end up with friends from my magnet then going back to school (cause the magnet is half-day) to not knowing what to do about friends.</p>
<p>And, because of the magnet, I’m friends with the “popular” crowd because the ones from my school in it are “popular”. But my normal crowd is the stoner-adjacent crowd. If that makes sense.</p>
<p>I was homeschooled and never had this problem. :)</p>
<p>The popular kids at my school ARE the ones taking AP courses. lol.</p>