Here in Australia we don't have the different types of schools the Americans have. We just have primary school and high school. However, we still have our cliques.

I always considered myself lucky in that I had a great group of friends, who somehow were a mixture of different types and yet we never put any pressure on the others to be what they weren't. I guess living in a small town may have helped with that too.

Thrall I am sure some of the reason why people from high school thought you were in a clique already, was that you seem to have to been very accepting of others. I am sure you learnt a lot from each group and they from you.