<p>I agree. A lot of popular kids at my school manage their athletic, academic, and social lives at the same time, or incorporate them with each other. Many made it Cornell, and a lot of private schools. However, it requires a lot of self-discipline and people skills.</p>
<p>At my school, the intelligent and academically-inclined students tend to be the most popular. For the most part, the dumber kids don’t have very many friends. It’s really odd.</p>
<p>Smart+Athletic+Popular+Attractive=Life isn’t fair
What I don’t understand is why so many people who match that description can’t be nice as well.</p>
<p>There are some real dumb —es in my school that are popular, but then there are some real smart ones that are popular.</p>
<p>There are three types i tend to see. of the “well known” :the people who have that kind of personality that many people like. the people that are really smart or really athletic. rich kids. heavy partiers
the popular kids are either rich or heavy partiers who created many social connections. most are smart i think. they just don’t make a big deal about it</p>
<p>Some are smart, most are not, none strive to fulfill their academic potential.</p>
<p>I don’t think we have any popular kids at our school. We just have groups of friends 5-10ish that we mostly hang around with at lunch…maybe I’m just out of it though. There are certain people that are really nice and thus have many friends…most of them are 3.0ish GPA’s I think. And then there are the jocks that are idiots, failing every class they take, etc. But noone outside of they group they hang out in actually like them, so I don’t think they’re popular.</p>
<p>Pretty much all of the “popular” kids are in at least the top 20% of our school. A few are really in the tip top. Some are slightly outside. But everyone at my school is technically “smart” because you have to pass a test to get in. But popularity isn’t a very big deal at my school after 8th grade. Everyone has their friends. There are no “jocks” really, partially because or football team is awful. We are very supportive of our soccer team though. Being a cheerleader doesn’t matter at all.
But I feel like there’s a separate popular group among the kids who don’t take AP classes. The “smart” kids get separated from the “not so smart” kids in 8th grade when Honors starts, and we don’t interact that much afterwards. But I can’t tell you about them really because I don’t know them.</p>
<p>This is very, very true.</p>
<p>my school is very clique-y. i’m not sure if one clique is more popular than the other. theres the asian group, who are like in all honors/ap. the honors kids who party every day of the week, practically. the average to below average spanish/black kids group. smart varsity athletes. partiers who are just plain dumb and slutty. as for me, well there are a couple of “white girl” cliques, apparently i’m part of one. my friends take mostly honors. so yeaaa its all pretty even. i think or something. wow i dont think this post makes sense.</p>
<p>ahah dont underestimate our stoners.
we have quite a few who are in all APs and are going to very good schools like NYU, Brandeis, BC,McGill!
heck, ones even going to Princeton! Of course he only really began smoking weed in senior year, but still</p>
<p>My school is simply too BIG to have popular people. Most people just don’t know most other people at their school.</p>
<p>At my school the whole top 20% of the senior class is “popular”</p>
<p>Well, I guess these people exist because I remember a few friends and just others telling me I’m smart but also that a lot of people know me as smart, athletic, social, and doesn’t do drugs or drink. I’m actually quite grateful to be perceived as what people call “well-rounded.”</p>
<p>In my school the valedictorian has taken 17 AP classes, 4.0 gpa, pretty popular I guess (especially all the Asians know him since hes no. 1) AND he blazes everyday LOL…</p>
<p>I’m Like one of the smartest kid in school everyone knows me and loves me! I always get so much attention and even the freshman say “Dude your my role model” I do have problems with some people but not a lot. Also, people who I never spoke to before knows my name…I find that weird! But it’s not just because I’m smart, its because I expose myself to the whole school by being involved in so many things and putting together events. =] Ya…I’m Cool :)) lol. And it’s not like I have 50 friends I have a small group of 4 friends and they’re all girls…and I’m a boy. I think it feels good though, to be looked at as a role model.</p>
<p>^ Ahahahahah, oh god, my sides…</p>
<p>Good joke, 10/10, would laugh again</p>
<p>But it’s true…</p>
<p>I go to a performing arts school so basically all the theatre kids are popular!</p>
<p>Some smart people take up leadership/class or ASB office–I think it looks good on college, and it doesn’t hurt your weighted GPA once you’ve taken every single AP/honors course to offer…</p>
<p>And there is a well known genius: Teachers still talk about him after a couple years after graduation, one has slides in their lecture going off on a huge tangent to talk about him. When I told people what school I go to at a pool party… They would talk about him… A widespread school legend.</p>