<p>For all four years of high school, my classes have consisted of the same "smart people," so it was pretty much inevitable that I'd befriend them. </p>
<p>Two of my closest friends are AP fiends like me, and a third takes a mix of honors and regular classes. </p>
<p>I really wish I knew the majority of the people in my school - you know, the people who don't constantly talk about college applications or test scores, and actually like to laugh and have fun. But unfortunately, I've been trapped in the little AP/Honors bubble since freshman year, and I haven't met many normal people since.</p>
<p>because i take a lot of honors/ap classes, those tend to be the kids i hang out with
but i have friends that aren't in any honors classes and are totally non-competitive. its nice to hang out with people who aren't always totally stressed out like i am</p>
<p>A few Honors kids, but some on the lower end of the academic spectrum, strangely. As in, "I get 'C's in regular classes, and don't give a crap!" kind of friends. We goof around a lot.</p>
<p>Actually, I don't have any friends who are in those AP classes with me; makes it rather lonely in them, really.</p>
<p>I don't usually hang out with the smart people. I hang out with a variety of people intelligence wise, and with several personality types. I prefer hanging out with people that don't only care about school.</p>
<p>My group of friends is VERY academic (2 out of the 3 #1s are part of my group lol but neither will probably end up being valedictorian because the first one is only taking 3 AP classes and 2 art classes and the other is the same amount as the other #1 but she has band so that will hurt her GPA, unfortunately) but I never really feel like there's a huge competition b/n us (but against other people, that's another story...) I mean, yeah the intrusion of schoolwork will always come up (i.e. someone won't come to a party because they have to work on college apps, someone has to study for their SATs, someone has a big test in AP Bio and needs to study) but I figure that probably happens with normal kids, too. I wouldn't know but... yeah. Haha. We talk grades and stuff but it's not to show off or anything, mostly complaining lol. I talk about testing like ACT, SAT, AP stuff all the time w/ friends in school but they're not the same ones I hang out w/.</p>
<p>We all care a ton about school but we're still normal (at least, I think.) Like the one #1 who's taking the same amount of AP classes as the 3rd person but is taking band? Yeah, she hates school. She doesn't want to give a speech because she'll probably say something like, "school sucks, be happy you're finally out," and she always jokes about bombing the CB. And we've gone clubbing and we stay out late and all that jazz.</p>
<p>We're high achievers but we're still teenagers. For instance, we were dilgiently studying for AP USH last year and decided to take a break. So what did we do? I borrowed some clothes from my friend to go swimming. The other #1 who has the art classes didn't even bother and just swam in her skirt and bra. It was SO much fun and so relieving.</p>
<p>I personally like the Honors/AP bubble lol. I mean, I do wish I knew more people outside of it but well, I can't say I have any regrets. I don't really THINK I'm missing out but even if I were, I wouldn't take it back XD And the AP/Honors students are VERY annoyingly well rounded around here... Homecoming King this year is an honors student, the prom king last year who I'm really good friends with is an honors student, honors students have seriously infiltrated the cheerleading squad and poms, the 3rd #1 is on varsity volleyball and varisty tennis and president of FBLA...</p>
<p>It's not surprising that a lot of them go to really good places lol XD</p>
<p>I hang out with nice mix. Some are really competitive, some are really smart but not too competitive, and some just slightly above average, and others still get lost on the way to school.</p>
<p>yea..my school is secretly competetive. and all the cliques have dissapeared, as for what we do..in an administration meeting - "the class of '07 is doomed."</p>
<p>I hang out with everyone :) From what I've seen, our school population isn't very competitive. Hate to stereotype, but it's mostly just the Asians who are the competitive ones...
My friends aren't very competitive but they care about their grades and are taking reasonably advanced classes.
But I don't really like hanging out with competitive people because lust for being number one just really annoys me and its kind of a social flaw</p>
<p>I hang with lots of different types of people. A "preppy" girl, who's really not very preppy at all...the homecoming queen...a stereotypical "gangsta" kid...a few non-academic regular kids, some gothy/emo types, and the rest of my friends are musicians or academically-oriented.</p>
<p>I hang out with lots of different types of people, and I like that. That makes a combination for people of different races (me being Chinese), abilities, and interests. My closest friends tend to be non-academically inclined, and in fact do poorly in school--two of who are training to be plumbers--but they're great chill people nonetheless. There's one guy who's more academic and pretty well balanced, but we rarely ever talk about school, except that we're both planning to go to McGill. Then there are the Asian kids I hang out with, who aren't academic at all, but also the drama kids from theater class and the school play I was in, who are awesome people too. I can't leave out the stoners or druggies either, who I get along with well too. Most of my closer friends are the artsy type, but I have a couple of engineering/science ones too.</p>
<p>I hang out with a pretty wide range of people, really. One of my closest friends, who graduated last year, is now a freshman at Cornell and was very academically successful in high school, but most of my other friends don't fall in the top 10% of my class.</p>
<p>My main crew is made up of some band members, some theater kids, debate nerds, a fair contingent of computer geeks, and an assortment of other such personages. My other group of friends is more academically motivated (one of them is going to WUSTL next fall), but they're still not hyper-competitive.</p>
<p>I'm friendly with a lot of people in the top 10, but generally not very close to them. Some of them are grade-grubbers; most of the others are very nice people, but in the wholesome sports-and-church-and-apple-pie kind of way that, while admirable, is not the sort of thing that characterizes me or my friends. We're a lot more nerdy than a lot of the hyper-academics.</p>
<p>My friends collectively are smart, taking the same or similar AP and honors classes as I am, work a little harder than the average student but less hard than the average AP/honors kid, and are capable of deep but humorously crude philosophical discussions</p>
<p>It depends. My closest friends are all in college now, and they usually took honors with some AP. I wouldn't associate them by their class, but rather by us being upper-middle class kids who regularly attended church. We all pretty much did some kind of sport, were involved with FCA or SGA, and some of us were fairly iconic figures in our school (one being the star quarterback and another being the perfect cheerleader/homecoming queen, but trust me, they did not fit those stereotypical superficial molds). </p>
<p>Now that they're all gone and that I can only hang out with them on breaks, my friends generally consist of some people mostly in honors classes within my grade that are generally college-bound but not to very selective schools. They're not really the iconic figures of our grade like my aforementioned friends, but they are all generally involved in something such as SGA or band. I love hanging out with them though, as they are all funny and laid back, something that I wish I could be...</p>
<p>But since all those friends don't have my lunch, I sit with girls from my AP class and hang out with them sometimes. Some are cool, but some are just flat out annoying and I would rather not hang out with them outside of school. They're generally uptight. </p>
<p>Finally, my two CLOSEST friends are two girls that I've known since I moved to FL four years ago. We are extremely close, but might not hang out as much as we used to. Still, we can talk to each other about anything, and know that through it all we will still be good friends and can turn to each other for help. They are in most of my classes and have been in my lunch for a long time, so we remain extremely close.</p>