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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids Junzo Terada her determination outweighs her shyness"You can't just be the smartest. You have to be the most athletic, you have to be able to have the most fun, you have to be the prettiest, the best dressed, the nicest, the most wanted. You have to constantly be out on the town partying, and then you have to get straight As. And most of all, you have to appear to be happy. CJ, age seventeen High school isn't what it used to be. With record numbers of students competing fiercely to get into college,