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This study aims to describe empirically the profile of the academic success of students in high school. This research is motivated by the assumption that academic success of students is only influenced by cognitive abilities possessed so that it can be said that achievement is a realization of cognitive abilities but it turns out that a persons cognitive aspects do not always guarantee individual academic success. The qualitative approach involved respondent of 786 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The data analysis used descriptive statistics with SPSS ver 14.0. The study shows the general academic success of students in Bandung in the category of moderate. Furthermore, the results of the analysis of academic success based on sex indicate that there are no significant differences. Research recommendations, namely for counseling teachers can design guidance and counseling programs that are able to direct the achievement of academic success using classical guidance services or group guidance.