<p>Are there any kids at your school who people think are a lot smarter than they actually are? Like one kid gets straight Bs but everyone assumes he or she always gets As and A pluses.
And what about underrated kids? Kids who are really smart but aren't give enough credit because they aren't flamboyant enough?</p>
<p>There’s a kid in my English class with brilliant spatial skills. He can rattle of insightful comments about anything the teacher asks. The only problem is that his intelligence goes to waste as he barely tries in school. For our AP Euro Final, we split it up into three days: one for MC, another for DBQ, and another for 2 FRQs. On the last day, after 10 minutes passed by (in a 75 minute session), he hands in one paper and walks out the door. Weird.</p>
<p>Overrated. That’s probably me. I’m not that good when it comes to fluid intelligence. My math scores are always lowest of all. That being said, very few from my small 100-kid class have larger vocabularies and know more national capitals, currencies and historical tidbits. Everyone thinks I’m smarter than I am. I don’t mind. Lol</p>
<p>I was surprised though, there’s this one kid who was in the year ahead of me who was much smarter than me and seems to get work done almost effortlessly. I could never do that, my whole big thing has been having a Puritan work ethic.</p>
<p>There’s something to be said for people’s priorities as well. I was surprised when the gorgeous Latina in my math class started applying herself one day and got better scores than I did. Too little, too late unfortunately and she missed the last test of the year for “Senior Skip Day” which brought her average way down. I wondered why she was so smart but didn’t seemed to care enough. </p>
<p>Then, I considered that with all the guys chasing her like they did, this girl could literally live any life she wanted and not have to worry about grades. Her thought-process was probably the same as mine would be in her situation–why put in the extra effort? </p>
<p>There are many roads you can take, I suppose…</p>
<p>this happens at most schools probably…for obvious reasons. Intelligence takes some intelligence to discern (especially when it comes to differentiating students carefully - into many groups), and the intelligence of the collective opinion is average assuming all opinions have the same influence. So probably it won’t be too accurate.</p>
<p>I am overrated. Everyone thinks I’m like a genius just cuz I’m Asian, have a good SAT score, and am ranked high. Also, they assume I study all day because I’m not allowed to hang out with people when in reality I just sit in my bed all day watching tv shows on my iPod.</p>
<p>Not really any underrated at my school…</p>
<p>^ why aren’t you allowed to hang out with people? btw, you might be confusing others perceiving you differently than you perceive yourself with that meaning you are overrated in their eyes. Or, probably more likely, you just described it (other’s perception of you) as overrated so your post would be congruent with the thread.</p>
<p>because “it’s unproductive” to hang out with my friends.</p>
<p>I mean that they think I’m a lot smarter than I actually am.</p>
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<p>I don’t know if that’s it though. I would just say that they think of you as different than you are (I’m not convinced that that difference is that they think you’re a lot smarter, but maybe I’m wrong).</p>
<p>I think I may be a bit overrated. I am a bit flamboyant though, I really enjoy participating in class and I am very competitive. I do have good scores though (I had the top PSAT score in my school as a sophomore), and I am at the top of my class. What I really think that makes people think I am smarter than I am because I have a bit of a nerdy personality. I am always spitting out fun facts and quotes.</p>
<p>As for underrated students, there aren’t any that I know of in my class except for some that could do better but are just lazy.</p>
<p>I’m wayy too overrated in my school. People just assume that I get straight 100s in like every class, when I’m happy to pull a 90 in most of them. I’ve had the rep since elementary school when I had a huge vocabulary for my age, and no one’s forgotten that rep yet. Plus, they assume that I do well in school because I know a lot about politics, current events, and just random facts from watching Jeopardy too much.</p>
<p>I know someone who has a cousin in my grade, and my friend asked his cousin if he hangs out with me, but his cousin said that I was too smart to hang out with…</p>
<p>As for underrated, there’s an Asian kid in my grade who NEVER speaks. Seriously. But my math teacher announced the grades for a county-wide test once and he was at the top. I don’t think anyone knew how good he was in school until then.</p>
<p>Yea, I’m overrated, not because I’m dumb, but because I’m a big fish in a small pond. I’m on track to be valedictorian, but I could never even get close to HYPMS quality.</p>
<p>This one guy is overrated at my school. What’s annoying is that he may get something wrong in class, but no one notices it… Its like anything he says, be it correct or not, makes him more of a genius in the eyes of the students and faculty alike.</p>
<p>Me. Everyone thinks I make straight A’s when umm lol</p>
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<p>How about kids that are really smart but just DGAF? There’s an Asian who’s super smart but just doesn’t care about anything.</p>
<p>There’s also an African-American kid (who’s the only one threatening to catch me for valedictorian) who’s pretty smart but just has no life outside of school work. Everyone thinks he’s weird. On random days, he’ll come to school dressed in a wig and cape and do really weird/stupid magic tricks and surveys. Whenever the Calc BC teacher gives extra credit for prettying up a diagram on a homework (e.g. drawing horses at a trough for a related rates problem), this kid turns it into a 6-page monstrosity filled with comics, confetti, and a bunch of random ****. And to top it all off, he makes the creepiest pictures/comics/Valentine’s cards–he Photoshops pictures of our teachers’ faces (from the yearbook) onto whatever he creates. :P</p>
<p>And then the 4 super smart kids (including me) in my class: the girl’s sarcastic, one of the guys does as little work as possible (he’s probably smarter than me but he just doesn’t work very much), one hides his snarkiness very well, and I have a reputation for being a jackass (at times). But teachers love the four of us. The kid mentioned above, not so much.</p>
<p>^ I would really love visiting your school.</p>
<p>That AA kid sounds fun!</p>
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<p>Holy crap no. He takes “working for an A” to a whole new level. I guarantee anyone who’s decently sane couldn’t stand more than 15 minutes of him.</p>
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<p>Eh, if you can find the smarter kids, you’d enjoy it. If not, it’s a bunch of Hispanics and blacks who don’t give two ****s about school.</p>
<p>^ He sounds fun during the whole confetti/tricks/surveys part. :D</p>
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Lawl, is this sort of extra credit common? I thought it was supposed to be related to the actual coursework.</p>
<p>I wasn’t referring to slackers, rather kids who don’t get recognized for their grades and intelligence. Like that quiet kid in your class who gets 100s but no one notices.</p>