<p>I believe I am the smartest in my entire school even though i do not make the best grades i am in IB and top 5 percent. The reason, I live in rural texas and i am the only atheist and extreme liberal. That alone makes me smarter.</p>
<p>Nope, just most people!</p>
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This is a very poorly phrased question or, rather, one that is designed to illicit a "no" response. No one could say that they are smarter than "everyone else" because there are multiple types of intelligence. But is it wrong to say one is smarter than others in some aspect of intelligence? No, and that statement isn't intangible either.</p>
<p>Oh, and this question is silly as well since intelligence in any form isn't anything without hard work to back it up.
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<p>It looks like we've got a little einstein here...too bad "illicit" isn't a verb.</p>
<p>My bad - homophones are tricky. But I guess this means that I'm inherently wrong now.</p>
<p>I hate people who think they’re geniuses because they take honors classes. Not AP or IB. Just generic honors classes.
And whenever they talk about a class, they make sure to say that they’re in honors. Not, " Yeah I have chemistry 2nd period", it’s “Yeah, I have HONORS chem 2nd period.”
Nothing annoys me like being cocky about something worthless like joke honors classes.</p>
<p>Major ego boosting thread. Well I’ll come out and say I’m probably one of the most intelligent if not the most intelligent person in my grade. However, like many of the posters so far, my diligence in school work and classwork is rather lackluster. I have a cummulative GPA that puts me exactly at the 20th percentile in my non-competitive athletics-focused school. In classes, most of the time, I procure the highest test scores (without studying at all) yet turn in maybe 50% of the homework, thus leading to my aforementioned GPA. My PSAT scores are the highest in the school (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors), yet I’m only a sophomore. I still get called a “genius” and other generic smart people terms by my classmates. I always feel like saying “I know this site called College Confidential that will make you realize what a misnomer you’re using. You want to see smart people visit this site.” However, that would kill my social life and thus I return to my complacent silence.</p>
<p>I can’t and won’t consider myself the smartest of my grade, or my school. Getting crowned by these people and my teachers, when inside… I don’t feel it. It’s empty.</p>
<p>The painful truth is that there is no one person that is smarter than everyone else.On my part i am outstanding academically not boasting but 99th percentile scores in all forms of standardized testing and excellent school work does not mean you outsmart others.CCers who apply to ivies should know better-virtually all candidates are brains but it does not really matter in a practical sense.I want u guys to consider a triple physics degree phd graduate designing toy cars and an intl relations degree holder advising the president.My point is everyone has both strengh and weaknessess.Sometimes this makes me sad because i think i may end up like the dudes in the big bang theory-very awkward social life and practical living skills.In summary i dont even like to consider myself as the smartest even if a situation proves i am.Reason-WE ARE ALL HUMANS.</p>
<p>Lol. In no way shape or, form do i think that i am on top of the game intellectually wise. I’m great with conceptual things like hard sciences or, applicable things like maths but, when it come to brute memorization ( Foreign language), i suck so much. ( Not really but, an 89 is sucking in my book)</p>
<p>-What i’ve learned thought is that a dumb person with a perfect memory can achieve a 4.0 UW GPA without trying.
Ex. In physics, you may learn the basic concepts of motion and, the dumb person won’t be able to begin to wrap his head around the complexities of the concept but, he will simple remember everything the teacher said and regurgitate it on the test. It’s only once in a while, that a teacher puts a question on the test designed to screw memorizers up (e.i an application questions that forces you to combine several concepts to solve a problem) </p>
<p>So, essentially, what i’m saying is that in our educational system, it’s not really about how smart you are or how critically you think, it’s more about how much you remember. </p>
<p>Another thing i would like complain about is how English papers are graded. After a while, i realized that it’s not what you write or whether or not you’re your content is right, it’s more about how you write it. An English teacher appreciates a convoluted metaphor that somehow compares cat sodomy to a rocket ship than the impeccable facts you wrote about. </p>
<p>Plus, I envy you guys in this thread who don’t do any homework yet, still get straight As. I did all my math homework, studied for every test and, ended up with a 90. Alas, life isn’t fair and, the fact that i attend a top 100 high school probably explains this. </p>
<p>Last but not least, i hate people who feel the need to assert their intelligence. I’m taking about the people who instead of saying " Man, i’m going to Science and then English" say, “Man, i’m going to AP Chemistry and then i need to go to Honor British literature” I hate people who do this. I feel like giving them a good ol’ fashioned back hand and, saying “your an idiot, Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those who do”. Not to say that i know everything. Far from it, In my freshman year, a kid who skipped a grade and was, 12 was already done with all 4 years of math. I can’t compete with that but, i’m fine. </p>
<p>------Man i hate writing</p>
<p>IQ of 140…Smarter than most.</p>
<p>The original post is intended to provoke responses from those with a delusion of grandeur, even from those seeming to have a well constructed “sensible” or “reasonable” response, where posting results in “self evidence” of the authors “intelligence”. By responding to this in a well articulated fashion, I am demonstrating my own delusion of grandeur. But I at least acknowledge it.</p>
<p>Some stupidities that I couldn’t pass up the chance of noting.</p>
<p>Zamzam: You are a “better writer” yet you “intuitively remember”?</p>
<p>Keshira: Requirement of an IQ of 125? Where did you obtain such a figure. Do you even know what IQ tests are supposed to quantify, and can you explain the requirement of an above average spatial and numeric reasoning for the purposes of amassing knowledge in order to diagnose and treat? (conflation of knowledge and intelligence)</p>
<p>aisanese: Your work does indeed seem “lacklustre”.</p>
<p>FunStuff: I have an IQ of 38, who might you believe is smarter?</p>
<p>Why the hell do we resort to IQ for everything?</p>
<p>It makes us feel good.</p>
<p>I think the point of this thread is to see that many, if not most people believe that they are smarter than everyone else, but we have to remember that we are still in high school, and we all arguably still closed minded, no matter what we have done or have seen.</p>
<p>My opinion is that the grades and SAT scores definitely do not define intelligence, yet we as dumb, ignorant high-schoolers only have those two bases for our assumptions. Personally, I see that good grades and a good SAT score defines HARD WORK, while the intelligence of the person makes the process of working easier/quicker.</p>
<p>For example, in my AP classes, I see many people who have great grades and good SAT scores, yet from the questions they ask in class, and the way the act and talk, any “bright” person can notice that they are pretty stupid. They pretty much admit that all they do is study at home every night. There are other cases that “intelligent” kids get the exact same grades and SAT scores as the stupid kids, maybe even lower, but the amount of effort they put in to earn those was significantly lower. I also find that these intelligent kids are more down to earth, and look towards the future rather than crying about a 90 on some Latin test.</p>
<p>In my opinion, intelligence is defined by your success in life, and how important you truly become. Many kids at my school who are considered “smart” will most likely go to good $50K schools, maybe even ivy’s. However, what will they do with their liberal arts degree at “George Washington” compared to the ‘above average/lazy’ kid who went to his flagship state school and received a dual degree in nuclear engineering and business?
What a waste of energy on their part. </p>
<p>Arguably, you can even say that the information you learn in highschool is a complete waste of time. You either are going to learn it again in college, or you are going to have to depending on your major, either from your company or through more schooling. One could conclude then that highschool is total is a waste of time, and is only a gateway into a good college; college where you can truly express your intelligence without the BS highshcool shoves in your face everyday.</p>
<p>to yaxattax - if your IQ was 38, you would be considered very mentally handicaped, and you would not be able to type a simple word, rather than type an argument.</p>
<p>About IQ tests - I really have no knowledge about them, but the last time I took an IQ test, which was around early middleshool, I got a 130. However, I would not be surprised that if I took it again, I would get a lower score. Why? I feel that probably becuase of the lack of mental stimulus from my highschool in the past 4 years, I wouldn’t be able to solve some simple problems, yet if you gave me a complicated Calculus problem, I could solve it with ease. Same case with the SAT too.</p>
<p>No, I do not think I am smarter than everyone else. Just far above average.</p>
<p>I think I am smarter than almost everyone else. I wouldn’t put myself at the top.</p>
<p>Nope! I am not smarter than everyone else! I am pretty logical though with brains a little smarter than average (depends on your definition of smart though). Like I am super creative, able to see the big picture and the tiny details as well, etc. I’m not good with memorizing names and dates though xD</p>
<p>I think I have above average ambitions + excellent work ethic/discipline… I dream big! 
Will it raise me up or be my downfall…? Hopefully the former! ahahaha</p>
<p>i’m smarter than some people and dumber than others</p>
<p>^That is true for approximately 6,888,275,528 people.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau’s World Population Clock, at 03:31 UTC (EST+5) Dec 17, 2010</p>
<p>Well, I’d like to think I’m smarter than most, but I know that I can’t prove it and that I am not as smart as others at everything. In math I perform really, really well. But in history, while I am really good, there are others who are amazingly better.</p>