<p>^^^That is the question. In other words, do you know of any intelligent, achieving (that is, participating in activities other than academics) valedictorians who are involved in relationships? Can you strike others as attractive while being an ardent scholar? </p>
<p>Also, would you say that guys are intimidated of smart, ambitious girls?</p>
<p>I know a valedictorian who always wins class president, prom king, etc. That being said, I doubt he has a girlfriend.</p>
<p>If a girl is doing better than them, at least in my school, it seems that they don't give the girl any credit for what she's accomplished. They say that she got lucky if she got the highest grade, or that she probably studies all day and all night (thereby making her a freak), or stuff like that. As far as achieving goes, nothing seems to be good enough. If you publish a short story or something, they make fun of you for the content of the story instead of congratulating you on actually getting yourself published.</p>
<p>I think, at least at my school, that they get jealous of intelligent and achieving girls, so they don't seem to be attracted to them, no matter how pretty or social they are.</p>
<p>fizix: Ooh... I'm feeling your scathing sarcasm...</p>
<p>I'm talking about female achievers. No matter how pleasant we are, we always seem to be feared or revered almost to the point that it's a holy mandate that we be left alone. </p>
<p>Waaaah!</p>
<p>PurpoisePal: Thanks for verifying that it's the same in places other than Texas. </p>
<p>And your last sentence struck me. All those days of primping without makeup (to accentuate natural beauty, you see) was for nothing...</p>
<p>In my class it seems like the smart kids are exclusively a subset of the guys. Except for this one girl.</p>
<p>And how do guys view "this one girl"?</p>
<p>Not really in my school. The smart girls never get boyfriends that are from the school.The smart ones who play dumb do, if they're pretty.</p>
<p>She's never gotten a date...but then again, her parents pick out her clothes, and she's widely acknowledged as the embodiment of weirdness. She is well-liked, though.</p>
<p>Ahh... sounds like a trinket from an 80's high school movie. </p>
<p>It perturbs me when girls feign stupid. No wonder the chicks in my classes get what they get.</p>
<p>I know this one girl who's taken, who's not number one is class rank, but she's smart, and is taking all enriched (honors) classes.</p>
<p>Our val is in a year-long relationship, but his girlfriend's not as intelligent so there's that. In fact, all (two) of the guys in our top ten are dating, whereas the girls, who are for the most part attractive and personable, are as far as I know entirely guy-less. Anecdotal evidence, perhaps, but it does answer your last question in the affirmative. </p>
<p>Then again, we're busier with extracurriculars and such, so it may just be a time/priority issue. Or maybe we just have standards.</p>
<p>Well, I'm the resident "freaky smart Asian chick" at my school. I'm not taken....yet ;)</p>
<p>I know of a girl who had a 4.0 unweighted (was not val, but close), got admitted to Ivies, did well in academic and extracurricular dimensions, and had 2 boyfriends during high school - 1 for 1 year, 1 for 3 years. Pretty committed. She was generally well-liked and even admired, though some were likely jealous. So it's not a correct conception that people who do well are geeky, socially inept, or doomed.</p>
<p>Interesting anecdotes, my friends. But if you could be so kind, could you please take the time to give me a piece of your advice in my thread called "Intellectuals, How Do you Do It?" Search my posts and you'll see it right off the bat. </p>
<p>Now, raise your hand if you're taken.</p>
<p>The valedictorian at my school is a girl (a very close friend of mine), brilliant, involved in every activitiy, etc. She has a lot of friends and is very funny. She also happens to be quite pretty and built like a model. But she has never been on a date and the guys at school don't give her the time of day, at least in romantic respect.</p>
<p>Why is this? Are guys intimidated or something?</p>
<p>ahem. 7 since 7th grade. (hey 7,7!)</p>
<p>i should stop .. . lol.</p>
<p>The #1 ranked girl in my class has a boyfriend. I don't know how she finds time to have a relationship.</p>
<p>I am intimidated by but, at the same time, attracted to smart girls.... that is, if they are good-looking, lol</p>
<p>:eek: I know girls that have boyfriends and are also smart. However, they don't advertise the fact they're intelligent, so I guess that somehow factors into that.</p>
<p>this girl in my school with 5 AP's has a b/f LOL
shes my friends sister and i saw them making out behind the building XD</p>