<p>I went to a high school with around 6,000, and we had pretty much no cliques. The size does not allow for it, it is impossible to ever know enough people to establish yourself among the entire group as anything, much less as something better than any other random stranger. And if you find a group on campus that you think is just totally “you,” which for some of us is a rare find, if you don’t click with them there are thousands of other people to meet anyway and it’s no big deal. There’s no pressure socially to find the right group and then convince them you belong, you can float in and out of hundreds or even thousands of different groups of kids if that’s what it takes for you to find your niche. The opportunities are endless, you are never going to run out of people that might accept you, you are never going to get locked into one role in school society and be stuck there. Size totally changes the dynamic. I loved it and that is also part of the reason why college is so nice, same basic principle.</p>