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These people just did not seem intelligent at all. I imagine that they got in to top colleges due to grade inflation, thousands of dollars spent on SAT prep, resume padding extracurriculars, and possibly legacy.
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<p>Has anyone ever worked in retail? It's a rhetorical question, but anyone who has worked in retail at a better boutique or store knows better than to judge the person who walks in wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt ... That person could have tons of money and be ready and willing to buy the store out. Only someone with a lack of sophistication would immediately assume the sweatpants-wearer doesn't have the money to afford, say, Neiman-Marcus or Bergdorf Goodman. The people with more sophistication know better.</p>
<p>Similarly, only someone with an equal lack of sophistication would assume that because Joe FratBoy is talking about the football game and enjoying his Saturday night with his buddies, that he can't be highly intellectual come Monday in the classroom and run circles around everyone else. </p>
<p>Guess that 174 IQ doesn't mean much if you don't have common sense!</p>
<p>Intelligence manifests itself in many forms. Intelligent does not equal intellectual. One of my D's h.s. friends was a hard-partying, airhead-type ("Wait, what? I don't get it!" was a common utterance). She turned out to be one of our vals, and is now a student at Duke. If a university does not do interviews, and even if they do, if the interview doesn't count for much, there really is no way for a u. to know how a potential student will be perceived by his/her peers. I'm not sure it matters much, anyway.</p>
<p>A 174 IQ score is a bogus IQ score. It couldn't come from a currently normed, properly validated test. Moreover, IQ is orthogonal to rationality, </p>
<p>Total troll. He didn't say he went to Dartmouth for Winter Carnival the way anyone who had visited last weekend would have. Hard to be looking for a typical experience with an ice sculpture in the middle of the Green and half the campus lined up for the polar bear swim!</p>
<p>Why do you need to talk about philosophy and physics while playing beer pong? It seems irrelevant and pompous to me. Unless, of course, you're discussing the physics of beer pong ;)</p>
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Many of them are so insecure about themselves that they feel like they have to be perfect at everything- perfect in the social sense and the academic sense.
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<p>This coming from Mr. "174IQPartier" -- <em>larfs</em> -- this is internet irony at its finest.</p>
<p>the top colleges are brimming with intelligence. The students there learn from some of the most quirky and intelligent adults in the country and the world.
However, 24/7 intellectualism is not only dorky, but boring and ridiculous to even imagine. Study Hard and Party Hard should be the motto at every school. That's what makes a great place.</p>
<p>I'm sorry for my bitterness before.
I was just afraid that I wouldn't get in when all of these other people managed to get in..
However, I got a likely letter from Dartmouth so I'm on Cloud Nine, :D :D</p>