How were you labelled in high school?

I was labelled a Social. I pretty much knew people in every group. I was friends with lots of people. I was always getting invited to parties. From A-list parties to seriously D-list parties. I went to them all. I didn't really care about labels and that is probably what made me so accepted in all the groups. I just my own thing. If I wanted to dress all preppy, I did. If I was feeling gothic, I did the gothic thing. I even dresses all country sometimes too. Just depended on my mood. I was into all the clubs too: French, Spanish, Drama, Music, Math, etc. I did them all. I think most of the popular kids stay popular in college too, unless you are going to Harvard, Yale or some other super academic school. Then who is popular and who isn't is very different from high school. Once college is over though, the real world gobbles you up. All of sudden it doesn't matter if you were the star quarterback who dated the head cheerleader. It doesn't matter if you were the complete nerd who never had a date. All that matters is that you can do the job right, efficiently and make the company money.

I'm a cheerleader when I was in high school but I wouldn't really say I'm popular. I don't like being labelled as popular, I prefer friendly. Yes, most of the students know me, greet me every time I pass by them and almost all of my teachers are my friends (we get along pretty well). One of my friends in high scool and in college who made a VTR for me said the same thing about me: "She's a sweetheart." It almost made me cry. I was really touched. I'm not really sure if popular kids in high school are still popular when they leave but I do know of some who are not really popular when we were in high school but they are now in college. My "reputation" when I was in high school and in college are the same. My friends (both in high school and college) refer to me as "a babe" or "a sweetheart" to everyone. I didn't really experienced being bullied or something. I'm grateful for that. And my college professors are my friends. Everybody's cool. :)

high school for me was awful. I live in Scotland and was always made out to be the unpopular one with a bad attitude who got herself into trouble on her own. I suppose I was this perosn in school but out of school I was a whole different story. I never socialised with people form school and thankfully never see them now. School for me was just terrible as I was seen as the rebel but a rebel on her own. I think people thought I was completely messed up in the head but I went to a school out of my area and switched schools when I was 13 and I think by that point when everyone has already been at the school for 2 years it can be difficult to get in a crowd.

Well, un4-tunately, LIFE is like high school! We're really MISLED, in believing that if we go 2 college, get a good education, and get a degree (or DEGREES), that the world is our "oyster", and that everything will simply "fall into place", quite nicely! BUT, what they DON'T tell us, is that life is more about HIGH SCHOOL than it is your actual ABILITIES! So, 2 "weave in" YOUR question, YES, it DOES matter, 2 a LARGE EXTENT! In high school, u have all of these "cliques", MANY of which u just named! And REAL LIFE is STILL about just THAT: CLIQUES! That's why people join fraternities and sororities: 2 be part of a LIFETIME clique! It's GREAT 4 CONNECTIONS, as far as employment, and in THIS life, it really IS all about WHO u know, NOT WHAT u know! And since MOST people are FOLLOWERS, and simply just wanna BELONG 2 SOMETHING, the appeal of being part of a clique, group, or "scene" is HUGE! As 4 ME, I wasn't really a part of ANY particular "clique"! But, the CLOSEST I came was what they called the "trendy scene", which was basically the "danceheads", the ones who'd wear the trendy clothes (even though, I've ALWAYS had my own UNIQUE style with clothing, even WITHIN the context of a "trend"), the ones who were ARTISTICALLY INCLINED! I was also ALWAYS in gifted/magnet classes, throughout my school "career", so u could say I was "brainy" myself! I've ALWAYS been highly intellectual! So, SOME would've classified me as a "nerd"! So, I guess it really would depend on WHO u asked! I've pretty much, MOSTLY, been an OUTCAST, a LONER! Even though I DID have SOME popularity in high school (4 a BRIEF period, anyway), I'm just NATURALLY a "2 myself" type of person. I agree with u, in that I DON'T c ANY of this changing ANYTIME SOON! People will ALWAYS categorize others! Whether we think it's "good" or "bad", it just IS! It's REALITY! I, personally, do my best 2 NOT label people EITHER, because I DO wanna know them, DEEP DOWN! But, even I can have "preconceived notions" about people. I think we ALL DO, if we're HONEST! I think we need 2 just ADMIT that, and move 4-ward from THERE! ACKNOWLEDGE your biases, and then go BEYOND them, get 2 know a person on an INDIVIDUAL BASIS, and u will probably "shatter" ALOT of them! U just have 2 be OPEN! Be open 2 learning, open 2 EXPLORING, open 2 DISCOVERY! I don't know what's happened 2 the kids I went 2 high school with, because I'm NOT in contact with ANY of them! LOL!!!!! I know that I am still the SAME person I always was! MY guess is that THEY'RE all the same as well! I don't think people "change" much! Sure, we go thru different STAGES in life, but ultimately, u R who u R!

I was the B1tch. I was friends with everyone, but feared by most. I was pretty much like The leader of the Plastics, but I was always the leader never a follower I did not care about trends or about losing my reputation by getting good grades. I was me, but I never let anyone tell me they were better than me.

Actually, I'm still in high school now, third year. I'm labelled as a misfit, stoner, pothead, outcast, rebel; along those lines. I'm not the type that's able to fit in anywhere, and though I get along generally fine with everyone, it's hard to find someone I can actually be close friends with.

I was know as a great sports women as i did, running and swimming when i was in school.

I was labelled as one of the "smart people." I wasn't unpopular because those of us that made good grades were actually well liked and generally the student leaders. This was a real change for me when I entered high school. At my junior high school, I was incredibly unpopular because I was smart. Making good grades in junior high was considered to be very uncool and those who did it were ostracized. Fortunately, when we all had to go to the larger high schools (my junior high was the smallest in the county) people had a very different attitude. Yes, those I went to junior high with still made fun of me and ostracized me...but then, they were the ones who were unpopular --so it really didn't matter. Oh, I guess I could have been considered a band geek too!

Now first you must understand this is going back over 50 years, before computers, before pocket calculators, before mobile phones, even before pop music!! Shock horror!! haha I enjoyed pretty much everything in school with maybe the exception Latin. Into dramatics, in the choir, chess club, captain of cricket and in most sports teams, into girls. Academically I was Mr. Average - good in some subjects but middle of the road in others.

Let's put it this way: I was voted biggest flirt my junior year! lol. I knew a lot of people and a lot of people knew me in high school. I wasn't the most popular girl but I guess u could say I was in a way. Now that I'm 26, I'm a completely different person. I'm not as flirty as I use to be and my circle of friends has gone down. I guess I realized who my real friends were. Not that many. Oh, and college was really different for me as opposed to high school. It didn't matter who I was in high school and it doesn't either in the real world.

We don't have cheerleaders here in Holland but we do have popular kids and nerds.I wasn't both of them.I was more the one who didn't got accepted and i tried to be funny because i wanted the attention.When i went to another school it was different.Because there were nerds and popular people but it didn't bothered anyone.It really didn't matter.

I was labelled as shy and serene.

OUr school was huge so I really didn't have a lable--just one of the kids that caught the city bus instead of the school bus.

I was a 'floater'. I got along with just about every group. I had a lot of cousins and family who were older than me and some that were there with me. So we all knew each other and hung out together. I played sports, and had good friends that were labeled as you mentioned above in just about every group. And I really don't think it matters once you are out of high school. The real world takes over, and evrybody changes again to fromat with it. That shy or nerdy person can now be a queen bee or jock or BMOC at college. And ms/mr popular could be the shy quiet nerd at a new job or college. It is so hard for high schoolers to look beyond high school and realize that high school does not define you. But high school has its good moments.

Music and Comic Book Geek, but I did not care. I am still and music and comic book geek to this day, but it is who I am.

I was definitely not one of the really 'popular' kids, but that was fine by me. I was the President of the Student Body my senior year. I was a member of student government all four years and very active in our enviornmental club. Most of the 'popular' kids are now working in department stores and the like! Only about 3-4 of them went on to college to make anything of themselves. One of the 'popular' guys did become an attorney and one of the girls became a school teacher. Other than those two, the rest are just ordinary citizens doing ordinary things! So much for their plans to become wildly successful!!!

I am in high school..So I say I am somewhere behind popular..A lot of people know me, but thing are changing...(FUTURE PLANS)

im actually the dance troupe, culinary art expert and the same brainy...its actually different here in the philippines. we dont have those kinds of highschool stuff you guys in US does, i mean, seeing how things are done in some movies...its way different here,,we dont have this kind is who's the star and who's popular usually gets to rule the school thingig like that..who's most popular in fact are the one's who's making it to the top ranking, not to the point to be considered as nerd...we value more and getting more friends in school..if youre friendly then youre the most popular...if youre acting bad and looks down at people, youll come out alone and no one will talk to you. you see its really different here.. when we leave highschool, and were making it big in college, we stay popular, but if you goes stray and so stupid things, you maybe recognized but no one will look up to you as somebody. but it doesnt matter anymore, its how you make it big out there that matters and what good things youre doing to people..and whats really matters is when you come back and be the old gal they know you before as being friendly, youll even be more popular by that...but if youre rich and famous, but then youre not treating people good, everyone will dislike you... have a nice day! :)

My high school years were so memorable, I was labeled one of the "popular" girls, I was also voted class flirt in junior high. I knew everyone and everyone knew me..I was friends with alot of people but I also had some enemies. I must admit that I did my share of teasing and talking behind peoples back but Im the complete opoosite now. I always wanted to be at the parties or the dances and always wore what was in style at the time. Now im a 24 yr old stay at home mom of a 4yr old little girl and I live my life so much better now. I had alot of friends back then but my dad always told me "you have alot of friends now but when you get older your only gonna remember 5 of them" and its so true because I dont even talk to more than half of those people from school. You really do learn who your true friends are.

Back here in Malaysia, we don't have the typical stereotypes that we hear about in the States. No cheerleaders, or jocks, or geeks, or anything like that.. So we didn't really hafta keep up social expectations.. Basically there were the juniors and the seniors, and the seniors were respected.. There is the occasional in-crowd and I happened to be in it during my senior year.. But it's been 7 yrs since I left high school so I'm not really sure how life in high school is right now.. But that's pretty much how my days in high school were.. They were one of the best years!