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I went to my 10 year. It was mildly fun. I had a huge class (750+) and didn't really see anyone that I knew. It was really just an experience of talking to strangers who spent the same four years in the same building as me. I have not heard of any reunions since then. I kind of suspect that the organizers are people I don't know and therefore don't put any effort into finding me and I have no idea who they are.

My high school had 4000+ people in it my senior year. Everything was very competitive. So competitive that you could really only pick one thing to do and hope to be good enough to do it. All of the varsity football players saw personal trainers and trained year-round. They didn't have time for other sports lest they wouldn't be good enough for football. Basketball, baseball, gymnastics, swimming, they were all the same. There were probably less than 20 kids in the whole school who played more than one sport. But it wasn't just sports. Want to be in the band? You better be taking private lessons. Want to be in the drama club? You better be taking acting lessons. Everything was like that. I was a kid who wanted to try a few things and because I didn't put in the time and effort to concentrate on one thing, I wasn't good enough at anything to make it onto the team/into the club/etc.. I ended up not doing anything as a result. Yes, most of the varsity football players went on to get full rides at D1 schools. Most of the band members went on to get music scholarships to Northwestern or wherever. But my guestimate is that between 25% and 50% of the school didn't participate in anything.

In college, I roomed with a bunch of guys who went to much smaller schools. One went to a private Catholic high school that had 100 students, total. Everyone was expected to play a fall, winter, and spring sport. Any clubs had to be scheduled around the sports so that there were enough people to participate. Complete opposite of my experience.