the study's findings. (i graduated in 1994, the study started the year after)

in my 1st yr of high school i rolled w/the popular Black kids and i had a 2.7ish GPA. at the beginning my sophomore yr i was still rolling w/them, but by the end of the yr we'd grown apart a bit. my GPA was higher, i was in advanced classes, and i was participating in theater...i can't attribute the change in my popularity w/Black kids to my grades alone. by junior yr i'd slipped in popularity w/the cool Black kids, i was in w/the nerdy Black kids & the theater geeks, i was taking college-level honors classes, and i had a 4.0. in senior yr my GPA was 4.5 or so and i was eating lunch in the library w/a couple other known but not exactly popular Black kids so we could do our homework. LOL

wow.

at the reunion in October everything was the same too.