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[quote=Anonymous]"    Athletes, z list, and some underrepresented tend to be made fun of by the top kids. There's definitely an obvious bottom of the class that many overachievers feel don't belong there. Overachievers aren't shy about sharing their opinion in this regard.

Only the a-holes. I went to one of these schools and no one I knew was spending any time sitting in judgment or gossiping about anyone else’s grades."

I once tried to explain this on here.  It's not that they are a-holes, although they might be, it is that they are 2nd tier, ambitious and know they are not 1st tier and never will be.  What separates the true top of the heap, is leadership, vision and internal motivation.  They have no time to think about such things because they are so engrossed in what they are doing they don't notice the bottom of the class.  They understand that they got into grad school not because of their 4.0 at Harvard but because on top of their 4.0 they also published a paper in Nature.

The 2nd tier with their 3.9s think they are almost as good as the 4.0s.  They may be in that some 4.0s that they hang around with are also in the 2nd tier.  They only managed a 4.0 by grade grubbing and taking a slightly easier set of classes and/or by not bothering to take the time to polish up their work and publish it in a 3rd rate journal.  These 2nd tier ambitious people are the ones who make fun of the 3rd tier at the bottom of the Ivy classes.  They do this because they know there is nothing they can do to become first tier and they are unhappy about it.[/quote]

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