One who should be in a higher position/class, but chooses not to be for the sake of easier work,
social status/life, lower
expectations, or just so they can feel dominant compared to their
dumbed down fellow students/workers.
Michelle's such an
overachieving underachiever, she should be in academic algebra, but chose applied algebra for easier work, and is now making the entire applied algebra class look stupid.
Diego chose to stay at the crappy
Seneca college just because most of his friends are going to it, even though he was accepted by
Harvard University.