“Misaki Ayuzawa is the class president of a predominantly male high school, and works hard to sharpen her reputation as an academic overachiever.”

“She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council.”

“There was a turning point in my early teens when I went from being a consummate slacker to an overachiever that nobody liked.”

“And so begins a lifetime of overachievement and self-identification through testing!”

“In the light of the result for 2003, an overachievement of the budgetary target for 2004 seems likely.”

“In a nifty piece of statistical analysis, Flynn then worked out just how great that overachievement was.”

“They are the thinkers, the overachievers, the rational, problem solving, liberal minded, intellectual elite.”

“I guess she was so used to being around superficial ego-driven overachievers that three more years of it didn't seem like much of a sacrifice.”

“Quart's dissection of status anxieties is brilliant, but her focus is restricted to academic overachievers bred by upper-income parents.”