Unfortunately, I think that many of the friendships made in school up till the time we graduate are very shallow relationships indeed. You're essentially lumped in with a bunch of people through the course of your entire youth (if you remain in the same community) or thrust into the middle of a previously established school community. The general population actually knows each other and have since they were in kindergarden or earlier.
Fitting in a new school community can be tough, even fitting into one you've grown up a part of can be tough. Kids jockey for position constantly on the population scale of life and don't care (or aren't aware) of who they hurt along the way.
College and University are much different simply because everyone's a stranger now.
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