<p>My Entire School is Genius.</p>
<p>I go to Henry M Gunn, ranked one of the top public schools in the Nation.</p>
<p>the school average for SAT's is above 1900</p>
<p>The average person takes 4 AP classes before graduating</p>
<p>and I can name 30 people off the top of my head in my class of 450 who got over 2300 on their SAT's, 4 of which were 2400's</p>
<p>plus we send 25+ ppl to stanford every year.</p>
<p>So yeah, I know some genius's</p>
<p>Bumping this because it was a great thread that kinda died.</p>
<p>I'm considered one of several "that genius"s at my school just by taking AP Calculus BC this past year (as a junior), and 4 other APs, and taking 5 APs next year (I get As-Bs in all of them). Although I don't have a 4.0 uw GPA, it seems like whenever someone is having trouble in their classes, I'm always the first person they ask.</p>
<p>However, not at my school, but he lives across the street from me and is several years older. Took AP Calculus BC at 9 years old, accepted at Wake Forest at 12....he's currently 19 and he's working on his master's in math. </p>
<p>There's always someone smarter I guess.</p>
<p>The genius at my school is representing the US in the International Physics Olympiad in Iran as part of a 5 member team, and I don't even think he is ranked as number 1 in our school!</p>
<p>Genius goes far beyond GPA, GPA is just so....unfeeling and insensitive to the inner workings of genius.</p>
<p>I guess that "genius" would be me...I'm currently valedictorian, nothing below an A+ on my transcript. 4.32 out of 4.3 scale for the cum GPA that I'm ranked by. That doesn't include junior year where my GPA will hopefully be a 4.42. #2 and #3 are between a 4.0 and a 4.1, I think. </p>
<p>The sad this is that I really don't study or work hard at all. I think I mostly get by on the reputation that I'm wicked smart, so teachers grade me based on that.</p>
<p>your sn and personality remind me of my class valedictorian. grr.</p>
<p>My son's school has at least 5 valedictorians, and two salutatorians.</p>
<p>Chiming in on an old post. I am that 'genius' kid, but I've never seen myself that way. My parents raised me to use and develop the abilities I have, but they also raised me to be modest about them. </p>
<p>I've had some experiences similar to TrinSF. I was always the one who ruined the curve. I am always the one who sees the connections before the teacher holds the class by the hand and walks it to the next idea. I'm the one who has to bite back my ideas in class so other kids can talk, even if I know my points are more interesting.</p>
<p>"they also raised me to be modest"</p>
<p>we sure can tell</p>
<p>You know what...In middle school I was harangued...INTENSIVELY by my peers to SHUT UP. They literaly would sit next to me in choir, in social studies, in math, etc...it killed me little by little on the inside. When I got to high school I felt trapped by own brain- I still am working to get out of the box I created for myself (used to be a VERY good speller etc. in elementary- they wanted me to skip grades for crying out loud :/- It was once I moved to this nature haven and gray vitamin D deficient place that kicked me in the head- I was born into sunlight (80 deg. F) and lived till 10 in 100 deg. F (in heat waves) during summer and 50 deg. F in winter. Then I get here and it is sunny 60 days out of the year. SIXTY. My mind has become a mush - it is very difficult to make friends when you can't talk about your family, life, affairs or any of the like. BAH. </p>
<p>By the way- I hate that my school doesn't weight GPA :-D For the class after me they do, but for mine they didn't. Was also FORCED to take 1.5 semesters of P.E. GRR. </p>
<p>Ranked in top 10% of class- have only ever gotten 7 Bs in high school- started out at low cumulative from translation to high school with middle school credits (3.85 from middle school lol- stayed in stasis from there)</p>
<p>If you ever partake in "don't get so high \grades- it hurts the curve"- then I feel that is a form of psychological, unintentional bullying. IT HURTS.</p>
<p>Off of my soapbox now :-D</p>
<p>At my school, there's everyone else, then there's Mary Masterman.
She doesn't actually even take classes at the school anymore, instead doing them over the internet... I guess to focus her time on her spectrograph thing.</p>
<p>For everyone else, there's a somewhat noticable gap between the top 10, top 20, and top 50 in terms of dedication and studying. The top 10 are the ones in an insane number of AP's and work really really hard. The top 20 only take AP's for the core classes and make A's. the top 50 takes AP's for core classes and doesn't, and the rest take some AP classes. I guess in a class of 700, it's easier to see the stratification.</p>
<p>my school have 24 valedictorians this year...
for class for '06, 80 out of about 400 got into berk
2 took calc bc freshmen year
8 sophmore year
like 25% of my graduating class junior year
and the rest senior year
but the genius does not have great GPA</p>
<p>he got into USAMO since 8th grade
MOP twice
was on black MOP (that means like almost US alternate team for the International Math Olympiad) then got kicked down to blue >.<</p>
<p>and there are other people like RSI, ISEF second place.... etc</p>
<p>We have this one genius at our school---he seems kinda embarassed that he is so much smarter than everyone else. I think that he trys to down-play his intelligence so that he will "fit in" better.</p>
<p>At my old school, there was a girl who had a 4.0 UW GPA and a really high weighted GPA. In middle school, she took like 8 high school classes. She took AP Chem in 9th grade and got a 5. She took AP Physics B, AP Calc BC, APUSH, and AP US Govt in 10th grade, and she's probably going to get all 5's. She also got a 212 on the PSAT sophomore year. She hasn't got under a 98% this year in any of her classes. You wouldn't be able to tell she was really smart out of class - she's actually very outgoing.</p>
<p>It's funny because she doesn't consider herself very bright. She told me she just studies ALOT.</p>
<p>my school's pretty competitive (median SAT 1360-1530 on the old scale) but there are three kids that just really stand out out of the 80 in my grade. they got 2400 on the SAT and all have 4.0UW GPA. it's pretty crazy. one kid got a 87 on a test and he seriously almost cried.</p>
<p>I suppose that such a person does exist at my school, but I do not know the people at my school well enough to determine specifically who it is. Let's just assume everyone at my school is a genius, for now. :p</p>
<p>someone that mentioned PSAT
we have at least like 5 people that got 230+ (238, 235,233.... etc)on psat during sophomore year in my hs
so 212 is not high at all</p>
<p>"If you ever partake in "don't get so high \grades- it hurts the curve"- then I feel that is a form of psychological, unintentional bullying. IT HURTS"</p>
<p>I couldn't agree more.</p>
<p>And also, How do schools have multiple Valedictorians?</p>
<p>My school had a fairly close group at the top. I was probably one of the more well-rounded of our group (got the overall student awards), but I hardly won any subject awards because there were always those people who excelled in one or two subjects. </p>
<p>That being said, the title of this post made me think of one kid (literally!) who goes to my school. He's about 10 or 11 years old, and has taken pre-IB (grade 10 level) math, english, and french so far as well as a few IT courses. He's also a piano prodigy and has played for the prime minister. He was also a finalist in a CBC Mozart Variations contest where youth got to compose their own piece of music. I'm pretty sure that if anyone will be the one way ahead of the rest, it's him.</p>
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someone that mentioned PSAT
we have at least like 5 people that got 230+ (238, 235,233.... etc)on psat during sophomore year in my hs
so 212 is not high at all
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<p>Well, there really isn't that much of a difference once you start scoring that high. </p>
<p>I suppose she's not quite a "genius" in that sense....she just works REALLY hard. haha</p>