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- You're in band so...
- Band kids are smart.
- Band kids are, I'm telling you.
- If you had to rank yourself
against others based on a specific trait,
what would it say about how you see them
and how they see you?
We asked six high school students to rank each other
based on what they assumed each other's GPAs are.
Then we rearrange them by their actual GPA.
This is ranking
- I guess, I guess I'm going first.
I used to be kind of obsessed
with like homework and like doing well and all that stuff.
But after quarantine, I realized that I was like
missing out on like the actual high school experience.
So this year I'm involved in a lot.
I'm the president of the Black Student Union.
I'm also the president of our school's Anti-Racism
and Equity Task Force, a senior class of '22 ambassador.
And I'm also on the dance team.
(shy applause)
- Yeah, I was not in clubs, but I was in track.
I was managing my business,
which I'm currently still managing with my mom.
I don't know. I've never been a part of any of that.
That sounds really cool.
- You have a business though.
(laughing)
- So my freshman year I was president my show choir
and then sophomore year I was dance captain
of my show choir.
And then now I'm doing social media director
for my dance team, which I've been on for three years.
I'm also in National Honor Society at my school.
(chuckle)
- I was on track and I did swim.
And then I'm also a musician.
So I was in band for all four years.
- I did like track, cross country.
I'm also in a few clubs there's Period Poverty,
earth club is another one.
And then I do like a lot of community service.
- I was really worried about some people,
because I think sometimes GPA can be deceptive,
'cuz I know a lot of people who are very
careless about school and just go
with the flow and then proceed to have like 4.6s
- I feel like who grades are not really a measure
of intelligence are worth.
It's more so like how good you are
at like the school system in the U.S.
- Like the GPA system and all that.
For me personally, I don't feel like it defines who you are.
- Yeah. I kinda agree.
I've never cared about school in a way.
And my parents always would say like
do what makes you happy.
And they would never pressure me.
- Yeah and in my family, my pressure is mainly
on trying to be top ranks
and to be the first one to go to college.
- Yeah. Growing up my brothers didn't do the greatest.
And so my parents kind of shifted onto me.
- Yeah. I would agree.
I don't have that much pressure on me though.
It's more just kind of like I wanted to do good I guess.
- What classes you you guys take like any AP classes,
any honors classes?
- I was like, what?
How do they even have the energy?
Like, I don't even have energy for normal classes.
Yeah, I'm gonna go there.
(laughing)
- She's taking like five APs
so I feel like she should like stay
- You're taking five too.
- Oh you're taking five as well?
- So I would say you're up.
- I don't know like, you're tricky.
I can't figure you out.
(laughing)
- You're in NHS
- But I feel like that doesn't bring it...anyways.
When they were placing me in the front, I was just like
maybe it's like the stereo type.
Also, like Asians tend to have the stereotype
of having really high GPAs.
- He also took a lot of APs too.
- Yeah. You might be up too.
- I feel like you should be like first honestly.
- Well also, do AP classes mean everything though
- Well for GPA
- For GPA they bump it up an extra point
- What if you don't have AP classes
but you had a really good like...
- Like if you take regular, you can't get over four.
So it's just like what I'm thinking.
- I feel like I should still switch with you though.
I just have a gut feeling.
- I have a feeling that you're like two
- Yeah. I feel like you should
- I feel like I wanna say you're first and you're second.
- I'm only taking one right now
- I think that you have to go (laughing)
- Are you sure?
- Yes. I have more faith in you than I do myself.
(chuckling)
- Well, I sort of had like a first impression
that I was probably one of the lower ones.
So it was more of placing them
above me than placing them below me.
Yeah 'cuz I feel like you three are definitely
like top three, like NHS, a bunch of AP classes.
- I don't know, like my grades dropped over quarantine.
So I don't know.
- Yeah. We have to take that into account
- I mean everyone's grades dropped over quarantine.
- I was doing good during quarantine
but when we came back it was such a big shift
because we were online for so long.
- Yeah. I think online lectures, I just can't focus.
Like I literally just like played video games
in the background. Hope my teacher doesn't see this, but
(chuckle)
- I think I'm the opposite,
like I focus so much better at home.
- Yeah. I was a horrible student during COVID.
(laughing)
- My teachers would like email me
like please just do this assignment.
- When quarantine happened, And then I started my business
and I just like, my grades dropped.
My friends were telling me like, so you're not smart.
Like, well what's wrong. I'm like, no, I am.
It's just, I'm not a school person.
Like I had more time to work on my business.
And it just like changed my perspective all the way.
Like if this is gonna be my life, like, I love it.
Like I'm gonna just keep going with my business.
- Should we do like a like vote?
Maybe like each person and then like
- Like, like a raise of hands who thinks she's one?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I think
- I think so.
(laughing)
- That's why I was like maybe.
- Okay. Do we think she's second?
- Yeah. She's second.
- Yeah. - Maybe
- I think you are four.
- Yeah. I think that little switch
- Okay
- Then to it I'm in.
- You're in band.
So that doesn't make sense, but like band kids probably
- Band kids are...
- Band kids are smart.
- 'Cuz to have some reading comprehension to
be able to read notes. As a former band kid.
- Yeah that's a good point.
- Okay.
- But I feel like you might surprise us.
- You're gonna surprise us.
- He is.
- He's gonna like
- Did you take any honors?
- I took a couple.
- I kind of feel like he should go like up.
- I think we just switch.
- Yeah.
- I genuinely think we should switch.
- I think you should switch with me.
- No.
- Rock paper scissors?
- You actually wanna do rock paper scissors?
- Yeah. Here.
- Rock paper scissors shoot.
- I'm gonna stay here.
- Oh okay.
- Do we feel good about this?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Alright. First we have
Joon and Daniela
tied
with a 2.0
Next up we have Jasmine with a 3.8.
Then we have David with a 4.04.
Then we have Jaelle with a 4.2.
- Oh wow. We got the order right.
- Dude we got it
(clapping and cheering)
- And we have Siena with a 4.6
- 4.6? No way.
- See we were right about the...
- Thank you.
(audience cheering)
- What kind of information do you think made it
possible for you guys to get the line up correct?
- I think it was the AP classes.
- Yeah.
- Once I heard AP I said I'm gonna go to the back.
- You can kind of tell like how people approach school
by how they talk about it.
- Yeah.
- Like if they just kinda like, oh yeah, whatever.
Do you know if you're gonna be Valedictorian?
'Cuz that's like the GPA of Valedictorian
- No. I guess my school is really competitive.
Yeah. No it's definitely not me.
There's people who have like higher GPAs than me
at my school, like fives. It's crazy thing.
- Jeez.
- That is a thing. - Oh my god.
- Middle school I like failed sixth grade.
The people were just like flunking too.
And so I was just kind of like following the crowd
and I still follow the crowd, but I guess like the crowd is
like better and they're doing better in school.
So it's helped me more than anything.
- Like starting in middle school I started
struggling with chronic illness and stuff.
And so I guess that's when I also realized that like
if people are going through something at home
or just in life in general, then their grades might not
reflect like how much they're actually good at school.
- And sometimes like even the college system
like they'll accept people
with lower GPAs because they see more potential.
- Oh yeah that's what I was saying.
I feel like it's more about like how well rounded you are.
That's how like you would probably get
into like such a good college.
- Yeah 'cuz you have a business.
- I was like...thanks
- Well we got it right.
(laughing)
(calming music)