How many high schoolers actually live the teenage dream (in america)

I just finished high school this year and couldn't stand one minute of it. I'm looking forward to college, but the "teenage dream" is bullshit unless your family's rich or something along those lines.

i dont live in america! :)

i live in a pretty rich area and the majority of people are actually like this. However i would say that nobody is happy because of those things. they are more like distractions from how shitty they feel. The only truly happy people i know are that way because of their personality.
p.s. most people who go to private school are on drugs and have major issues with themselves public school is slightly better in that way

i dont know im not american :)

I got bullied for not having enough money, I would have to barrow a friends vehicle, I was considered a freak in school, I hung out with the goth or the nerds, I was really great at PE even though I never joined any teams and found the topic boring, I also got picked on since I was smaller and everyone my age/gender was bigger/broader, they also thought I was psychotic. So that did not really help anything, my grades were average. I got a lot of friend torse the end of school. I was skinny most of my life. My original school had mostly upper class and upper middle class and they got whatever they wanted. So I was the biggest loser in the school.

It's hilarious watching those cheesy teen movies where they play up the stereotypes so much. I honestly don't know anyone who fits perfectly into any of those.

lol your seriously fucked if you think alot of americans are like this in school
quit watching so much dam tv its so fake

Anything that you see on tv always perpetuates this image of the beautiful looking teen that falls in love and lives a perfect life but that world is a fantasy land in my opinion. I am defintely in the 1-2 % majority here. It could be possible but I see it little to none.

nobody's life is perfect

There is an annoyingly huge population that fall under this category in my high school and they don't let anyone else forget it. Perfect, good grades, all the best clothes, pretty or handsome, rich family, best cars, and mean as heck.

Anything is possible. but you need the money to finance that sort of life, so, not very many i guess.

I'm currently in high school and i know some ppl that have most if not all these things, but its not common. i sure as hell dont have it, but it doesnt really matter. i have my friends and they're funnier than the "popular" people.

To start things off...I don't fall into this category, but I enjoyed my high school years sort of haha.

im british and you ameircans sound soo cheesy and sad " ooo look at me with my american dream oo dreams its an ameircan dreams.. ooo im proud to be an american.. were the best country in the world, were the center of the universe" ................ NO!

I don't like how a lot of people dis America and no I'm not some whiny cry-baby. I'm just standing up for for my country. I hate how people generalize Americans. Some people say we're all fat and that we think we are the best country in the world. Yeah some people in America think and are that (not to be rude, sorry)but not all of us. Besides, none of us are "real" Americans. Our ancestors originated from all over the world. Just so you know. Nobody in this world is perfect. Yeah, some people think they are but they aren't. And what is up with the whole American Dream thing? Everyone knows that being popular and getting along with your parents is stupid. Everyone is hated in one way or another...sorry for my long rant. I tend to do that a lot xD.

my sister is from american and she is rich and living her dream in high school

It's actually more common than you think - I went to a private middle school and a public high school. The majority of the kids that I went to middle school with are:
1) attractive
2) rich
3) attend good schools (USC, UCLA, UC San Diego, University of the Pacific, Chico State, Phoenix State, etc).
4) party animals / drinkers / beer pong players.
5) athletic / in shape / on a sports team.
Considering I left that middle school and opted for a public education (while they all went to top notch private high schools) - they all seem pretty superficial to me - regardless of their "perfect lives".

Ugh, thank God I graduated this year.

why do you foren people want to know.

I went to public school in a small town. The class diversity there was nuts, you had students from the "1%" and students living well below the poverty line.

Many of the students at my school were from families with money, their parents were college graduates working a professional job. I'd say as much as 30% of them were from Upper Middle Class and above families. They drove really nice vehicles, many SUVs with great sound systems, sports cars, late model economy cars or late model trucks. The goffs/emo kids that are so dark and needed to express their individuality either drove vintage cars (like off Twilight) or uhm... stuff like Pearl White Civics with "I Eat Brains" and "Zombies" bumper stickers. A lot of BMW/Merc Benz cars.

The ones that were not goffic usually had a lot of friends, the guys were jocks and the girls were usually white with the tanning bed skin and bottle blonde hair and they usually dated eachother (with the occasional rich black kid and his white, cheerleader girlfriend). Most were atheletes of some sort and partied pretty hard, they were the ones that got into and made the most trouble at our school.

The lower income kids usually skipped class o got knocked up. The working class and middle class didn't get into much trouble but had a higher rate of pregnancy than the higher class. I don't envy the upper class kids. Many of them are on more drugs and drank more then I ever did. Maybe that's the key to success, Iunno.

You are all idiots.

I don't know I haven't met them all.

Quit watching so much My Sweet Sixteen... scripted. No one lives like that.

Hard to put a finger on any accurate percentage. However, due to family life and life circumstances school can easily be evaded. I am 26, but it took me several years to feel any desire to go to school. I recently took Medical courses, and it made me feel a lot better about myself. However, you can only be where you're at, and patient with that as well.

hahaha land of opportunity I tossed away for the bottle and blitzed through highschool. I hear stories about those kids blowing out because they have to maintain that high level for others expectations

basically its dis way in parts of every country.. there justhappens 2 b more american movies den there are any other types (the big 1s we c in the cinema)..i live in ireland n a lot of people are like that here 2.. just take away the american accents(tho a lot loool are soOMG LIKE WDF ..Ud think they were americanlol) and the sun the setting and the exggerations ..and swap it with the accents etc from where you live n its d same thing.. theres loads of ppl like dat ..its all about money isnt it you see lots of stunning girls and lots of them arent as popular as the richgirls cus maybe deyr from the wrong part of town or hang with the wrong crew..its all the same when you strip the fakeness away.. fuck dat shit neway,,,.. they always get fucked over in the end by their so called 'friends'no on has a perfect life not even them