[wonderfullness]

It seems like there are a lot of competitive/ambitious juniors at my high school in comparison to the rest of the grades. A lot more juniors took all honors as freshmen and surprisingly most have kept up with them. And a lot of my teachers even say that they haven't had such a high grades in their classes in 8-10 years. It's been like this since middle school too.
Where as the rest of the grades have 2-3 really exceptional students, it's hard to tell in our class who's at the top because everyone's so competitive--even between friends. Most people are so competitive that they don't like sharing their grades or standardized test scores with their friends. And they'll purposely avoid helping people with work they don't understand because they're afraid they'll do better than them. It's kind of sad. I mean, I'm competitive too, but I don't mind helping my friends when they need it. :|

Anyways, I was just wondering if the class of 2010 is competitive at your schools too. Because I was surprised to find out in high school that the rest of the sending districts, not just mine, were like this too.

[aAa M aAa N D aAa]

well i am apart of the class of 2010
and i must say... it is a really competitive class
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[sushixlovesu]

yeah i guess.. most of my friends who are part of the class of 2010 are all in NHS. X_X

[sunnicherri]

Yup! At my school it's made competitive for my year. The statistics are like a bell curve in my school. It goes all the way high and then next year it shoots down...
But because of all these uber competitive people, I'm not getting into college. There is about 40 people or so whose GPA is over 4.0 in my year. That is different than most years because it's such a large amount.
NJ sucks. Big Time.

[alicimoo]

The juniors in my school are really smart as well. They had to make an extra math honors class in their grade because there were so many smart people.

[xpenggwinx]

all the juniors in my school have school spirit
haha when we have a spirit check, they are the loudest x.x
but i dont think they are the smartest haha

[p a r q u e.]

Yeah, same for us.


We only have 2 AP English classes for juniors and we managed to cram about 70students in.

[Vivskies]

o_o Well I can say I'm royally screwed.
DX My friends got their PSAT scores back, and most of them all qualified for National Merit School thing in California.
Booo.
I'm such a 'F-' asian.

[OBSCURITY xxx]

OMG YESSSS they're soooo competitve at my school..... you shouldve seen our pep rally and us seniors against them... ><

[emceej]

omg . yeah i noticed that too. i was imagining the seniors putting up banners about their recognition but the juniors are obviously taking over. like you don't even see that much seniors having so much school sprit but the juniors are promoting themselves. like there's the class of 2010 senior trip flyers everywhere for next year @_@

[sparkerly]

i'm really superstitious and I agree that the class of 2010 IS pretty competitive and intelligent.

I have this theory that its because of the MONKEY year [they are known to be intelligent, 1992]
LOL I believe in the animal signs. ._.

[lovablekrnstar63]

..no, not really.
at my school, c/o 2009 is smarter than c/o2010

[jvchou1316]

^ yup. 09 is beast yo'.

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[maydai3333]

There's a few, mostly within our AP program. But other than that, no class of 10 is not competitive.

[trabia-wind]

nah, at our school class of '09 is the most competitive.. class of '10 is ok but not as crazy
most ppl i know around here say their class of '09 is the most competitive too o_o

[alicimoo]

LOL, oh man.....hate to dis my own class, but c/o 2009 in my school is probably one of the dumbest classes in my school's history.

[kirstie_s]

lol. this is so true.
all the juniors at my school are effin crazy. and most of em are mad smart
all of the kids at my school are super spirited
but even with that the juniors go all out crazy when it comes to spirit days and rallies.
maybe it just seems that way cause their class is bigger than ours.
i have noticed another thing about them though..
the girls tend to be much sluttier >.<... dress inappropriately
no offense to any of you class of 10 girls out there though

[wonderfullness]

i'm really superstitious and I agree that the class of 2010 IS pretty competitive and intelligent.

I have this theory that its because of the MONKEY year [they are known to be intelligent, 1992]
LOL I believe in the animal signs. ._.

LOL OH MY GOSH. I've been thinking the same thing! Monkey's are supposed to be good at solving problems and are supposedly successful in any field. It's crazy. But there are also people born as rams/sheep in my grade & they're among the top students too. XD But it's a good theory hehe.

..no, not really.
at my school, c/o 2009 is smarter than c/o2010

Wow! That's interesting. There's actually a few extremely bright students in the class of 09 at my school, but not many try that hard :/

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LOL, I didn't realized juniors were so school-spiritually competitive XD We're actually probably the least spirited grade at our school, haha.

[Rasberryz]

OMG YES. Junior class at my school is crazy smart....they all stack up on AP classes and do so much more extra ecc than 09...

[sheyli]

OMG YESS.
Basically /all/ the juniors are in Model UN club, and a bunch of them run clubs and stuff.

Plus I know a few and they're ALL hekka smart 'cause whenever I see them we talk about all the honors/AP's they took when they were a sophomoree...

Jeez, its gonna be interesting to see who's gonna be the valedictorian of them..

And I can't believe it's like this at other schools too, apparently?
Maybe it's a generation thing xD

We sophomores seem to be competitive only among the few 10-20 honors kids x]