<p>I'm Mexican, people assume I'm enrolled in special ed classes..boy do I prove them wrong with my 4.0 GPA, along with the heaviest courseload available.</p>
<p>Ok the Mexican thing is all stereotypes too. Keep proving them wrong.
Viva la raza!</p>
<p>screw em</p>
<p>i'm half mexican and half asian!</p>
<p>I get it all the time. im not asian. the only reason its annoying is because i dont really think i am. in some areas, sure, i guess i am. but there are people with better grades. i have better ECs than most, but they arent brilliant. i always hear that i just come across as smart, and everybody's first impression of me as that im smart, so people just assume i am. but then i come here (CC) and see that i am not really an overachiever.</p>
<p>I get "Of course YOU got an A+." and "Just...Don't say anything." when we're talking about grades.</p>
<p>I try to ignore any excuses about "oh you're asian, you're supposed to overachieve anyways." I do get kind of ticked off when people say that I'm an overachiever when in reality it's all relative. Most students at my school never even see a 600 on their SAT grade report (even though it's "supposed" to be #1 or 2 in the county), so when they see something like a 1300 (assuming on the old SAT) and I say I'm taking it over, they say "why? you're such an overachiever, blah blah blah." So put it this way, we all come to these forums to get away from those remarks of being "an overachiever", b/c in reality that term is just relative, I feel like cc is sort of the place where I go to get out of the world of being a so called "overachiever" and it places me in relation to some of the top students around.</p>
<p>Overachiever? Me? Hahahahaha, yeah right.</p>
<p>"it's all relative"</p>
<p>I can't resist a straight line :p For many of us Asians, it is "all relatives"...usually we have to compete against our cousins or the past successes of our parents and aunts and uncles...</p>
<p>All the overachiever comments sometimes make me arrogant. However, I'm on earth by the time I read some threads on this forum. Is it a conspiracy to make "sort of achieving people" arrogant, and thus do badly on other tests? I know it makes no sense but haha</p>
<p>That is exactly how I feel imiracle911. On a side note about the arrogance that comes with such a title, I've learned that once you start junior year and you realize that you're studying for every SAT test and 95 percent of everyone else is not, you do start to look down on people. I have mixed feelings about this arrogance, but I don't know what to say. I often say that school does not determine how good a person you are. However having said that, the other side of me says that the amount of effort I put into studying reflects the kind of person I am, so does this not make me a better person for putting 100% effort into everything that I do.</p>
<p>A lot of people call me an overachiever... Especially my French 3 teacher because i would have to correct her all the time... Sometimes i think my French is better than hers... I have been hearing overachiever since the 8th grade or something, so I am used to it. Now it is slowly becoming nerd... I really don't mind either...</p>