TOPIC: On a Scale of 1-10 - How Popular Were You In Highschool

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In old high school I was about a 4-5, playing basketball and having two club promoters in my class helped(one was my best friend).

In the new high school I'm here since 4 months and I think I'm at around an 8-9, I know personally half the school(1400 people) and I'm "close friends" with around 50-60 guys and girls(with whom I regularly go get a coffe or just hang out), there are 4 high school in my city and in late september I got as a girlfiend one of the cutest girls of the high school that has the highest rate of girls to boys(about 80% of girls).

While being with her I kind of absorbed her social circles and being to her school often I got to know a ton of girls(while I was waiting for her I was approaching new people for the sake of being bored).

I know the whole handball team(national sport here) and they got me in the "in" crowd because I was tested to play in the team(coach just loved the fact that I had a very strong shot while having no practice, he said I'm probably the guy with most potential out of the team but it was wasted because I was starting too late), I was watching a training because of a friend and a ball got in my hands, I scored a goal from very far with an amazing shot and got the attention of the team, at the tryouts I had a 80% score rate out of the shots and injured the wrist of a goalkeeper (jumped in and he was very close to me it was the worst possible hit he could've got on the wrist), I was spending too mcuh time with my gf and missing sessions so I got kicked out(in a nice way but still).

I still hang out with them and get called to parties of the team so it helps.

Also I'm in an unique situation because I come from very far and am consider as "exotic"(there are really no outer people here it only local population pretty much) and I'm that tall guy from italy in the IV-9(number of my class, the only class ever to get the most promising reward in the school in freshman and last year as the most problematic class, we never stand more than 3-4 hours and basically spend 2-3 hours chilling in the city or going to get a coffee).

Living the dream I just have to get that killer instinct and lower my standards(it's hard after having such a goodlooking gf), for next night I've been called by two girls and they told me to bring a friend cuz they're home alone but we are with the crew so we can't go(idiots..).

Oh if it matters I went from 500 friends on fb to over 1000 and from 10-20 likes to over 100(having about 30 pictures with other people helped me), I actually have a few pics with 200+ likes but they weren't posted by me so I don't count them(not like it matters anyway)

Any advice on how to enjoy the reamaining few months of school to the fullest?

I've found out that guys here get laid by lying to girls and pretending to be what you call betas, messagging them liking their shit and such like they love girls very much, and girls actually fall for the shit.

They call players liars over there, our culture is similar to russian if it may help you understand.

Should I settle again with a girl and wait months to get pussy or should I try just banging the girls that are known for being sluts (they aren't actually bad looking but have probably fucked 20+ guys so they get bad reputation and I could get a bad one too..)?

tiphat wrote: I was very popular. Not trying to sound arrogant. I was probably 9-10/10. I went to a high school with 2400 people and I would be surprised if there was someone in the school who hadn't at least heard of me. I was a well known football recruit and I was valedictorian
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This doesn't mean I was always well liked though. I think most people thought I was arrogant, and a lot of girls thought I was a player (I was). Oh well. College was pretty similar.

I'm actually glad people like you are here. It shows that GLL actually appeals to the cooler crowd. I don't think someone who is bothered by douche bags/meat heads would look at this website.

I was a really eccentric guy in HS so people either really liked me or really hated me. One female friend thought I had autism. Freshman year I played a lot of WoW and only on occasion would meet up with some friends. Sophmore and junior years I got introduced to some WoW players and went to WoW lan parties every weekend or every other weekend. Senior year I worked out only upper body and was ripped (but still skinny), so I became somewhat popular. I would say I'm a lot like Chris senior year, but at the same time I did not care for being "cool." I didn't even go to my prom and instead went out with some friends to watch startrek.

I was about a 7-8 in the popularity from 9th to 11th grade. I was a rebel in high school and I stood up for all my friends. I was also one of the tallest and strongest kids in my class.

I was still friend zoned like a mother fucker in high school. But I was accepted in every single click and social group in school.

My First year was my most memorable year . I made a huge improvement from the first semester to the second .

First Year Score / First Semester : - 1

I had SEVER Anxiety back then . My idea of what high school was like was completely fucked up , I believed it was just like in the movies . I avoided going to the cafeteria for lunch and never really talked to anyone . I just hung out with some 3 ( geeks / losers ) from elementary school . I felt horrible because these guys were the lowest of the low and got made fun of alot and they were basically the only ppl I could hang out with .
I really felt awkward with myself at that age ( 14 ) did not feel comfortable at all . My Anxiety was soo extreme I refused to talk the bus for some months and walked to school for 30 + mins , even in the blizzard during the winter , I just felt everyone was looking and judging me .
I thought I would attract friends if I dressed cool , so I latterly spent months looking for Jordan shoes , beginning my parents to buy them for me , I would spend hours on ebay just looking for cool clothes and the amount of time I wasted on this was sad .
I remember my parents finally bought me a Sean John Bomber jacket and I wore it to school everyday thinking I was the man , lol . I did get compliments on it from classmates and a lot of people mentioned it but it never went further , unfortunately I did not have / meet any friends this year . In my mind I assumed everyone knew each other , everyone already had friends from elementary school and no one was looking to make new friends . I had some fucked up thinking back then .


First Year Score / Second Semester : 5.5

Around the beginning of the year a guy in my class told me he and some friends played basketball during lunch so I showed up unexpectedly and uninvited and was greeted with some harsh words , " who are you? , what are you doing here , get this guy out of here" etc . Teams were chosen and I was picked dead last , everyone laughed . Then when the game started I destroyed everything , got the most points and was the best player out there . They all under estimated me based on my looks and I didnt fit the "baller image " so they were all shock and impressed , thats when I gained alot of "respect" ( not sure if thats the correct word ) . Guys would talk to me after school , guys would give me props in the hallway , I started playing basketball after school a lot and build a nice circle of friends . However it never really evolved into hanging out on the weekends on at night at someones house , it was mostly just hanging out during school hours and that’s it . I never made a FaceBook so I didn’t have a social network , never knew about parties , never got invited . I was basically popular amongst 15-30 ppl and that’s it .

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Second Year Score : 6

I guess this was my breakout year , the momentum I gained from the second semester of last year followed me during my second year . I made alot more friends because I had different classes and seen different people , I was quite popular in some of my classes and made some semi solid friend relationships . I made the basketball team and met some cool guys through this and gained some attention for being on the team . This was the year I got approached by 3-5 girls asking me to go on a date with them / telling me Im cute / asking me to have sex with them , and my Anxiety was still Severe , Horrible when it came to women + I was Deeply religious and did everything I could not to give into sex ( was waiting for marriage during this time ) Girls approached me , the awkward mofo I was would not say anything / blush / or just give them the cold shoulder and ignore them . I had soo many fuckn options with girls this year , if I just played my cards right it would have been an awesome year . I was still a nobody in the school , I was only known to around 40-60 guy friends . But I felt very One Dimensional , I mean the only topics people would talk to me about were NBA games from last / switch chick would you rather Bang type questions . I was never into video games / ps3 or anything like that and that was very popular with all the guys . I did not have a lot of common interests with others and would only hang out with guys during school hours , Weekends and evenings I basically spent alone at home or out playing basketball with old buddies elementary school .
This was my Best year of High School .

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Third Year Score : 3


Things started well for me beginning of the year , still cool with everyone then few weeks into the school year myself and 2 other guys did a very stupid act ( I will not go into what we did ) , they approached me with a plan and I agreed to do it .
After we did this Thing , everything went downhill for me . People started to distance themselves away from me , guys I was cool with would still talk to me but it wasnt the same as before . Lost alot of popularity in the little circle I had and my reputation took a hit .

I had the bad luck of making "enemies" during this year , 2-3 guys really didnt like me or X reason , wasnt even my fault it just was that way . They were more popular then me in school and had a bigger influence over others , so I was not invited to hang out because X didnt want me there . Less people would hang out with me and it was pretty bad , This year was def the beginning of my downhill .

A lot of my friends from my basketball team got suspended / transferred so I lost more people I knew . That’s like 5-10 of people I would hang out with gone . During this year I got lucky and got into a super chill class . Teacher didn’t do shit and had 5-7 guys in the class that were amazing . We all got along because we were super chill to each other , we didn’t give a shit about school / grades or popularity , we were just chill and happy . They didn’t judge me like all the others did , we got along pretty well . They even asked me to hang out some times after school on weekends to play ball , chill , smoke weed , I finally got a feeling like I belonged .

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Forth Year Score : 2.5

Everything from my third year transferred to my forth year , same treatment , same people , etc . Forth year is suppose to be the best year , last year of high school , do all the crazy shit and live it up …well not me , I really distanced myself from everything . Did not attend graduation, did not attend prom , did not attend any school events , Never got invited out to parties or anything like that . I just had this attitude where I don’t give a fuck .

I actually got into a couple of fights this year , the enemies I made in third year , the situation just got boiled up and I knew eventually I would fight them because there was alot of tension between us . So got into a few fights , then the "friends" closet group of guys I hung out with backstabbed me in the most brutal way , this was second semester when everyone is getting ready for grad / prom and I had to deal with this shit , it was also unexpected . That action made me a lone wolf , I really stopped depending on other people , knew I couldnt trust anyone and just wanted to be alone .
I stopped showing up to classes , would skip alot and just go home , I was really just going to school for 1-2 class and just floating throughout the day , I did not exist or talk with anyone , just in and out . Its weird beuase during my Last year of high school I kept telling myself “ Bro this is your Last Year , why waste it , you will never be in high school again , Do all the shit now and have no regrets “ Unfortunately the position I was in did not allow me to experience everything high school had to offer , Last year just went by fast .



My Anxiety is what really fucked me over and gave me a horrible high experience . I was soo uncomfortable in my skin you would not believe it . I refused to take the bus to school during my first year because I assumed everyone was looking / judging me , so I honestly walked to school for 30+ mins for months , even in the blizzard cold .
And when I did take the bus home I was dead scared to press the button to signal to bus driver I wanted to get off at the next stop , few times I stayed in the bus until it drove to the station and back because no one pressed the button and I was too scared to do it myself , thats how bad it was . I just did not want to bring any attention to myself .


If I started high school TODAY and know what I know now , have the sense of style I have now , Decreased Anxiety I have now , feeling more comfortable in my skin now , then I would honestly be in the top 5% of the school . I would of banged 50 + chicks ( Im serious ) , I would of made alot of friends and been very popular to all the guys and girls in my school . I would of gone to all the school events and made friends with everyone .

But it is what it is , I cannot go back and change that so regrets are a waste , just stay positive and move forward now .

I was an 8 sophomore year and around a 7 the other years. I worked out a ton the summer after freshman year and was known for having a good body the following year. I didn't maintain that muscle because I needed to slim down to get better strength to weight ratios for my sport (went on to play at a PAC-12 school so it was worth it) but I coasted off of that and was known for a few other things the last two years that kept me semi-popular. I was also friends with a solid groups of guys that were always doing social stuff, and while I wasn't as good with girls back then, I would still talk to them in class and was friendly with most of them except the top 10-12 most popular girls in my grade that I was a bit out of the loop with/intimidated by. I probably could have been an 8 or 9 if I had partied more (didn't drink much at all or smoke weed because of my sport) and done sports for my school instead of club sports, but I got through those years pretty well and have been building ever since. I don't regret anything major that I could have done in high school but didn't do.

8 - 9 throughout high school, could have been a 9.25++ if i actually fucked the girls who put themselves on a platter for me
i'll comment more tmrw when i'm not slightly intoxicated and feeling guuuud off kratom

although my experience is somewhat off kilter, as my high school was composed of ~300 people maximum
i think that's an important thing to note

my popularity changed from year to year. my first year i was a super try hard, and so I was known but hated, and my reputation from elementary school followed me (i was probably the most hated kid in my elementary school). Sophomore year was my biggest year in terms of popularity, I was nominated for homecoming prince and made it to the final round. I made the most friends sophomore year.

Freshman and Sophomore year I was in Leadership which put me in with the cool kids, and I was starting to get along with some of them but my parents withdrew me for the next 2 years, essentially forcing me to focus on academics more. Junior and Senior year I couldn't party, but all the cool kids were partying and so I was majorly left out. I gave up Junior and Senior year and focused on my academics super hard, and I spent most of the end of Senior year talking to my cynical nerdy friends who were all super smart and going to great private schools, but we all hated each other and don't really talk to each other to this day. I started a Science Club at my school because I knew it would help me get into a good college.

A lot of the bottom tier/nerds liked me because I was super nice to them despite being in Leadership which everyone saw as the popular kids club, and they supported me up to trying to make a homecoming prince. Every time I stopped by the "nerd table" they all were really welcoming towards me and wanted me to hang out with them more.

I talked to one girl who knew me as the most hated kid in elementary school and she told me I changed a lot, as in I seem more confident now. Then again, this was through Facebook so not sure if that's a reliable statement or not.

in conclusion - probably a "6" in popularity at my height in sophomore year, most popular with the nerd kids. was accepted in every single social circle, there almost wasn't a single person in my year who didn't know my name. not necessarily liked.

I was not popular at all. I had a few popular friends but mostly I was considered a weirdo, creep or outcast

But, girls were attracted to me anyway and I got laid/"went-out" with cute girls... sometimes

By 16, I completely turned my back on high school and started hanging out with a fairly rough group of inner city kids which actually helped me get laid more with the girls who liked hanging out with total bad boys who did lots of drugs and never went to school

My high school was not your typical suburban high school with the social hierarchy in place, it was in the inner city section of a large city and in a poor condition as well. We barely had many kids in it and so many of the students were on bagged lunch. Parents had the money to send me to one of the better schools but the commute was like an extra 30 minutes so they decided not to. It was an awful public school.

Luckily we didn't have any major fights (though we did have some guys that were in gangs) and I made it through without getting into a fight or getting sent to the hospital (can't say that about a couple of kids though).

School was mostly black with a sizable hispanic population too, hardly any quality in terms of girls there. I could count on 1 hand the amount of girls I would want to fuck sober. If you weren't into overweight black and mexican women with a ghetto attitude, you were mostly out of luck.

The whole popular kids didn't thing did not exist. I for the most part was a loner by choice, didn't have many options with women because there were hardly any women I wanted to fuck.

Wish I had gone to the typical suburban school with the hot girls and popular kids, social skills would have developed a lot. High school years were miserable for me not due to bullying but mainly due to the fact that it was so hard for a normal kid to function socially in an inner city high school.

BTW chris, get back to me on my thread about being a college virgin bro!

About revenge and grudges.

I was in a tricky situation growing up. My parents were well doing okay financially and by no means poor but due to the way the city I lived in was constructed, the gyms and a lot of the areas had more of the "thug" type kids from the bad parts getting access to the places I went to. Such was the situation with my high school. Unless you paid for private school, lived in a gated community, or just way out in the suburbs many miles away, you always encountered the ghetto thug types in most public places.

I have memory of the one day I was playing a pickup game of basketball with some friends (mostly white and asian) and these three kids (black and like three years older than us) just sabotaged our entire game. They took the basketball, started throwing it around, and then shoved my white and asian friends. One of the kids tackled me for no good reason at all, well he more shoved me but I maintained my balance and kept from falling completely. That same kid would end up going to my high school and doing little things to annoy me, sometimes intimidate me, and one day he even knocked my lunch off of the lunch table on purpose. I did nothing about it, couldn't.

Last I heard the kid tried out for a college basketball team and was cut, still frequents that same gym with his "boys", and now the gym has lost a lot of members due to guys like him bothering everyone.

On one hand, I really want to punch his face in but on the other hand I think that I am in college getting an education while he is in the same shitty area. The guy was a straight up bully, I never really confronted him but he was one of the few people I have met in my life that I would call a low life. The dude started harassing this one girl who kept rejecting his advances and when she tried to walk away, he punched her in the face. Now some perspective, the guy is 6'3 with some muscle all him, the girl is a short white girl that is barely 5'5. That guy is by far the most pathetic human being I have ever had to interact with.

I was about a 7-8 in the popularity from 9th to 11th grade. I was a rebel in high school and I stood up for all my friends. I was also one of the tallest and strongest kids in my class.

I was still friend zoned like a mother fucker in high school. But I was accepted in every single click and social group in school.

I was real similar to Phil, tho I had a solid girlfriend from about middle school through 10th grade. Mid 10th grade after the girl and I broke up, I started throwing crazy parties, and since I was cool with literally everybody in my school (600 people), we had a blast. Only ever hooked up with 2 other chicks in HS tho, despite the constant parties. I dropped out half way through Junior year so I could work full time at my job, and have been working there ever since (19 now, a year after HS). My friends and I were the kings of parties and the football team/jocks in general would come to our parties along with the 10 hottest chicks in the school (sometimes). I'm still cool with all of them.

Overall, I'd say I was about an 8/10, had a real good mix of friends and people that wanted to hang out. Still run with my crew of about 10 solid buddies a year later as they are all in college and I am just working. Overall, I wouldn't say I was 100% satisfied with my HS career (wish I would have dropped it sooner). Looking to move away from the same town now and get some new friends elsewhere.

EDIT: As for fights, I did wrestle a few years and wasn't huge for my class, but could hold my own. I'd been lifting (not too seriously tho) the entire time, and was strong enough to kick ass in the 3 fights I ever got in. Needless to say they were broken up by the school staff shortly after starting, so I'm not sure if I could really get an accurate representation. Best one tho, got punched in the nose, it started bleeding, I fuckin tackled this kid across the table in the lunch room and beat his ass. Got suspended more than my fair share lol.