<p>So, I just saw some seniors complaining about senior awards and how its all about favoritism, and I feel everybody has a story like that.
I wanted to know if anyone else was in a situation where they were passed over for something where they worked really hard and got the highest scores, or however your thing is ranked, and how did you deal with it?</p>
<p>By realizing it’s high school and not giving a crap.</p>
<p>Do it Stalin-style, send your enemies to a gulag!</p>
<p>Well, I’m still a measly freshman, so this hasn’t happened to me. But I was pretty shocked when I found out that the valedictorian in my school isn’t earned by good grades, its voted by the students. I mean sure its great that everyone gets some input but why does an academic achievement have to turn into a popularity contest?</p>
<p>…Okay that was actually pretty stupid now that I read it over but I still have a bit of resentment left over.</p>
<p>@Above: Lol. I’d like to have the above competition, even though it is also flawed, rather than weighted GPAs where you can abuse the system in so many (significant) ways. Heh, but its still politics and you can “pork barrel” but we don’t like GPA hackers do we, so we don’t elect them.</p>
<p>Along the same lines as TheKongo:
Just hope that you prepared yourself better for round 2, college. Then you can cut-em off in the race.</p>
<p>By realizing that I’m entitled to nothing, regardless of my work ethic, or any other factor that makes me “deserve” something.</p>
<p>But I enjoy the politics of high school…</p>
<p>You suck it up and tell yourself that it doesn’t matter. It may seem like it does…but it doesn’t.</p>
<p>@Ach7DD
Sound like you’re on Academic Decathlon, which is actually what I’m upset about.
2nd highest scores in our club, and I wasn’t put on our “top” team. Then, while the top team won state and went off to nationals, I continued to study, give them my outline notes, etc. Spent over 250 hours studying the material hoping to be made captain, but it went to the person who got my spot on the team. They were friends with the captains, who had the lowest scores of anyone on the team. The thing I’m most upset about is that I was told that I had a very strong chance of making captain, and ended up spending 250+ hours on it, when I could’ve been studying for school, SATs, or even getting a decent amount of sleep for once 
It’s happened before, and I know it’ll happen again. I just need to stop getting my hopes up.</p>
<p>You complain about it to your friends and secretly want them to agree with you about how much it sucks. In reality, they don’t care. At all.</p>
<p>@Secoja8
Good point.</p>