How Do Students In School Get Both Good Grades And Popularity?

[albertbucky]

I'm in high school right now. Sometimes, I hear about someone who is both really popular and really good with their studies.

It always confuses me, because I've always thought that it was either that you got good grades but you also become a complete loner isolated from everyone/only have a small group of friends, or you become popular and have love and a lot of friends but get bad grades.

So how exactly is it that some people have both? Is there some sort of secret formula? Or are they just superhuman? what sort of genes do these kind of people have?

[hannah40]

I’ve just asked my 18yr old daughter and she said the same as you.
There’s a popular crowd who my daughter said are not very nice at her school that is she doesn’t know if that’s the norm.
There’s her small group of friends who are all academic and then the kids who are loners perhaps with additional needs and not many friends . Then there’s the run of mill set who are average kids not popular not academic but nice usually sporty.
That’s from an 18 yr olds point of from view lower 6.