OP here. Actually I started thinking about this topic when I saw an old thread from a few years back by @Lindagaf who was looking for colleges for her daughter titled “Where do the “cool kids” go to college?”. It got me thinking about where these “cool” kids (which I interpreted as “popular” kids) ended up. I didn’t have any preconceptions about the responses, just thought it would be fun to see where your fellow classmates ended up!
As a side note. I roomed with a guy in college who was one of the most “popular” kids at his small northern CA high school. Graduating class of like 80 kids. He was the “football star”, Homecoming King, and dated one of the more “popular” girls. However, when he went away to college, he became just another “average joe” amongst a population of 30K undergrads, who had a crazy girlfriend who had to give up her love of horse riding as she had been kicked in the head one too many times (true story!). Anyways, the transition to college life was hard for him and he would frequently talk about the “good ol’ days” in high school. Some might say he peaked at 18 years old but he is doing fine, last I heard, working as a senior sales rep for a large CA company.