Were you the popular kid in High School?

[Munchkin03]

I was really well-known in school. I was on the TV show, and was the spirit coordinator (don't ask, it sounds so stupid now). So, everyone basically knew who I was. My groups of friends were primarily in the "in crowd," but since I was so politically and culturally different from them, I didn't have anyone within that group I could consider my best friends. I can honestly say, though, that I had friends from every "group."

Not that it really matters, though. Like people said, who you were in HS isn't shit. I have better friends now that I graduated from college, and don't talk to almost anyone from high school (in fact, my very best friend, whom I still keep in touch, transferred out our freshman year).

[JohnsDGsweethrt]

Well I guess I was a B lister but I had a great group of girl friends I had hung out w/ since like 2nd grade. My h.s. was a fairly good size. I thought the "popular" kids were stuck up meanies. I wouldn't have wanted to hang with them but a select few of them were really cool. I keep in touch w/ no one from h.s.. Half the kids still live with their parents and go to the football games. LOL Anywho, on a side note a few years back I went to the tanning bed and I was signing in and but who could be behind the desk working there besides a cheerleader from the A list! lol She said "hey I know you from h.s."! She asked what I was doing. I was like, oh I'm a graduate student at USC (s. carolina) Needless to say, I laughed all the way to the bed. LOL

ps. Hope that' isn't mean but that one was pretty snooty

[BobraFCD]

I guess I was considered popular -- depending on who you asked.
I was a cheerleader and hung out with the active kids (jocks, yearbook staff etc) who coincidentally were the top scholars of the class.

I got along well with the "hoods" as they called themselves--and would feel very comfortable going to a party with them.

Interesting--I got straight As but also missed 27 days of school my first semester of Senior year. So I was a closet truant, but my good girl image covered for me.

No one ever asked me for a hall pass and one teacher would give me her car to go get donuts!

[AOIIalum]

Not popular, not unpopular, just middle of the road. Like sigmagrrl, I went to an private all-girls Catholic school, with just over 100 in my graduating class/about 400 in the entire HS. We all just knew everyone else, although some may be more "well known" than others due to academic excellence, community involvement and athletics.

Most of my friends went to other schools (for those of you familiar with my hometown, I went to Presentation but all my female friends and grade school classmates went to Sacred Heart.) So, most of my socializing was not with my classmates, because all but about 5 of them lived across town from me!

[PrincessHeather]

there are 5 public high schools in my town and 4 private ones. My school has always been refer to as the "public-private school'. Even our "geeks" would be consider "preppy and snobbing" by other schools. When you would tell people where you were from you where called: a Beyer B*tch! (Beyer is the name of my high school)

Since my entire school was refered to as snobby it got pretty bad sometimes. I had 8 best friends that I was very close with. 7 of us played 3 sports a year (5 of us got full rides for college, on sport scholarships. I wasn't one of them ) The one that didn't play three sports was on varisty cheer as a freshman and did swimming in the spring. we were all in AP/college prep classes involved in almost every club. I was homecoming princess. it was fun I loved HS but once it was over, i'd never want to go back! college is so much better

In my school the 'cool' kids were the preppy, sporty,very very involved, and in the AP classes. Most were nice to everyone but we did have our b*tches and our slutty girls too.

almost all groups were cool with each other. Our school was more small groups of close friends that would hang out with other groups. We did have the typical 'outcast' groups but they wouldn't of wanted to hang out with anyone anyway.

Our band/drama kids were probably dubbed the 'dorks and geeks' but what was funny was they would go compete at weekend long events and come back and say how the other schools kept calling them snobs. its just funny how it worked.

[Shine]

I wasn't popular or unpopular in high school. I was well known because I was a floater.

I had friends in every group but the very extremes of the uber pocket-protector nerds and the self-proclaimed exclusive popular crowd.

I myself did choir, drama, soccer, StuGo, SADD, FCA, and then I was in almost all AP/Honors classes. So I had exposure to a lot of groups of people.

I had friends that were jocks, bandies, brains, preps, goths, skaters and d&d dorks.

I guess that my main group was pretty much the B or C-List. I had friends on the A-List and I was nominated for court stuff, but I felt most comfortable with the normal level kids who were unpretentious and just there to have fun.

[AOII_LB93]

Ok so I went to my 10 year last night...man, can I have my $75 per person back? That was the worst food, and quite honestly all the people that acted like asses back in the day were asses last night. Not much has changed for some of them....I now know why I won't go to another one. It was SO not worth it. The people that I liked back then I still talk with anyhow.

Boo on the reunion.

ETA Remember those girls in HS who used to whisper about everyone else in the bathroom at dances and stuff? They were all doing it again last night...some things never change!

[AchtungBaby80]

I wasn't really on any "list"...I wasn't rich enough to be Popular, I had too much money to be accepted with the Rednecks, I didn't play sports so I wasn't a Jock, etc. I didn't go out much because I lived in the country so no one really knew what to make of me besides my friends, who belonged to all different groups. I was the first in school to wear go-go boots, but I wasn't weird enough to hang out with the "freaks". It was so much fun...being labeled would kind of suck.

[Rudey]

I bet some of you were just like those trench coat freaks.

-Rudey
--Never fitting in...always wanting to just shoot something up...listening to that crazy music about how nobody cares.

[Buttonz]

We had 53 kids in my senior class...and everyone was basically in at least towo groups, if not more. I did yearbook, debate, newspaper and mock trial, which involed most of the kids who came from Brooklyn/ Brooklyn had it's own seprate 'Brooklyn Crowd' which was most of the popel thgat lived in Brooklyn....but I was one of the few Brooklyn people not in that crowd. I didn't hang out with any of them till senior year. I hung out with the 'looers' so to speak.....the kids tnat didnt really get alogn with most people but for some reason I was one of the few of that crowd that got along with most of my class

[AXJules]

I was the nameless one.

I was on Poms, the only freshman to make Dance Team, and I floated hardcore. I studied with the dorks, partied with the drunks, smoked with the hippies, went clubbing with the Euro trash, and talked to everyone. I was also incredibly quiet and shy until my junior year so I became that girl that was everywhere and "a friend of so and so's" but no one knew my name. I find out now that a couple ppl had crushes on me but back then??? My friends convinced me and every one else that I was "friend" quality only, and I believed it. I never even went to a dance at my own high school. When I got to college and guys actually gave me the time of day, I couldn't understand it. Still kind of don't, but that's another story.....

I hated the fact that kids left their change in the vending machine b/c they "hated quarters" and that if you didn't get a new car for your 16th birthday, you were from outer space. My family wasn't poor but I didn't want to feed into looking like everyone else.....so all my good friends went to other high schools and I vowed to never own a North Face (which I gave into last year. I think its ok now. )

I'm actually totally fine with how things were. I learned to hold a conversation with just about anyone and b/c all my friends were totally opposite, I experienced a lot of things some ppl never will. The best part (and I'm hoping some of you have experienced this b/c it is the BEST feeling) is now that I'm 21, I go home and meet ppl at a new job or in a bar....they're like, YOU went to North??? I would have remembered you....want to hang out sometime??? And I'm like HA!! You didn't have time to get to know me then?? I don't have time now. But I have no reputation, so it's kind of like, if we do become friends I get to start with a clean slate, minus the HS hierarchy bullshit. And that makes me a very happy girl.

[ucfcutie]

I was in HS last year, and it was so much fun. I was involved in lots of clubs and sports so I had lots of friends and that's whats important to me. I didnt really worry about being popular.

[KSUViolet06]

I was Prom Queen my senior year, but I wasn't particularly "A List" popular. I had friends in the top popular groups who wanted me to be closer to them and would invite me to hang with them alot. Sometimes I would, but I prefered to stick with my "middle popular " friends who were alot nicer.

[Beanblossom1]

I never felt popular in high school, but looking back, I probably was. Cheerleading, officer in several clubs, superlative 3 yrs. I tried to be nice to everyone, but didn't mind being by myself at times either.

It was very interesting at my 10 yr reunion. The ones that thought they were Miss/Mr It were still carrying themselves like that. Thing is, no one really cared. And when you read everyone's biographies, they hadn't done squat with their lives. The ones of us that were more well-known than popular (if that makes sense) were the ones that had graduated from college, obtained advanced degrees, had good jobs/incomes. Just goes to show - the ones that previously said repuation or being on the A-list doesn't mean doodles after high school were right.

[emleepc]

I was a floater. I got along with most everybody. I played 3 sports, sang in the choir, got decent grades, etc.......so I could fit in anywhere.

Popularity is relative anyway.......