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What happened to the 'popular kids' from your high school?
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Anonymous
| Unless they were out-right mean to you or others, chances are it was just your own insecurity labeling them "the popular kids" and having an issue. |
Anonymous
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I don't really know because I didn't know fully who the popular kids were, being an immigrant kid and locked out of that social sphere.
But knowing my school, I assume that the athletes were the popular kids - one kid (football captain, tried to grab my bottom in 8th grade) now a police officer, rising in the ranks. Hope he matured - one kid, who I never spoke to but was well know as another football kid whose girl friend was the top cheerleader. They were the it couple and married after graduation. I literally never thought about him. He seemed so mediocre and a little mean. He made the local news for trying to hire someone to kill his wife (cheerleader) because she was having an affair with a coworker. - third kid, played a lot of sports. Nice guy, one of the few who were nice to me. He also married his high school sweetheart. I was really sad for him to hear she passed away from breast cancer as a young mother. I wish him well. |
Anonymous
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Many went to to Ivies; all went to college and became professionals. Good to see them at reunions; some have already retired (especially the ones who became teachers). Just had our 45th reunion.
The women gained weight' the men went bald. You know, people. |
Anonymous
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^^
more have become grandparents since the 40th reunion. That's the biggest change. |
Anonymous
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One popular boy became moderately well known in political TV. Another became super famous. A popular girl was a reality TV personality for a bit. None were mean kids though.
For the really mean girls, one became a psychiatrist (oh the irony) and one I can’t find any trace of (name too common to be useful), but looked fine at the last reunion, so I assume doing OK. Nicer popular girls became an OBGYN, a not very successful actress and a rich SAHM with a pretty cool hobby job. |
Anonymous
| Went to Big 3 in DC. They are all successful/rich. |
Anonymous
| Popular boy from my small southern town is a household name in a specific industry. He wasn't a good student, but he has that something. |
Anonymous
| I grew up in small town NC. The kids I thought of as popular were mostly the ones who were decently intelligent but also socially adept. They're mostly doing well for themselves professionally. Socially there's divorces and such but that's lots of people once you're middle aged. |
Anonymous
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Recently had my 30th reunion:
Straight A kids continued on the typical path, and are doctors and lawyers. Popular kids are now selling insurance or similar jobs. The B kids started businesses and are the most likely to be really wealthy. And as we're all approaching 50, there's now a huge split between those who kept in shape and those who fell apart, though it seems evenly spread across all the above groups. |
Anonymous
| The only one I know anything about made the news for jumping off a sailboat off the coast of the cape of good hope to save a man overboard. Then he became the governor of St. Helena (island in the Atlantic) at some point later. That was some time ago though. |
Anonymous
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All girls Catholic.
Most are married and happy with beautiful children. Many married rich and are still married their kids seem to be thriving. I run into a few now and again and they are happy normal people. A few have had family tragedy and seem to have solid support group, Our valedictorian is normal nothing amazing as we were led to believe what happen if you were valedictorian. There’s quite a few super successful people from our class and they seem to just have been the normal kids. Not necessarily the honor students, though the honor students have done well too. |
Anonymous
I also went to a private school not in the DMV. This is similar to my observations. Most of the guys are successful in high-earning jobs. The women are mixed- some are also successful high earners, some are SAHMs and some have hobby jobs. I can’t think of a single example of popular people in HS or college who ended up as unsuccessful, losers. |
Anonymous
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I graduated from a magnet high school abroad. Every single person from my graduating class went to college and is doing well now.
Nobody was mean to anyone. We were all too busy with homework. The most popular girls work for the national government in the old country. They work harder than I ever would. I should go to our 30-year reunion in 2026. I'm probably the least successful when it comes to a career. |
Anonymous
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Grew up in this area. The popular kids also weren’t mean or bullies. They’ve mostly done fine. Most are married with families, a couple stand outs, most standard consultants or lawyers etc. A couple surprises like two of the super attractive very beloved ones never marrying (one girl and one guy). I wonder from afar about that. Both had long term relationships when we were younger and in early 20s that seemed to fizzle. I just never would have predicted that for them.
Career wise I think the slightly nerdier kids are much more impressive from my high school. There are some super impressive and interesting careers there. Which makes sense. But the popular kids did fine, they are making money it’s just a little less flashy and interesting. Most of them live here now. The more interesting kids live in NYC and on the west coast doing more interesting things (myself not included! I’m the boring returned to dc semi-popular in high school federal employee) |
Anonymous
| Prom king became a mailman. |