<p>This is motivated purely by curiousity, as a disclaimer, not by any attempts at science.</p>
<p>So, list the top five students in the class, based on your perceptions of their intelligence, and then include the actual class rank in parentheses next to it, do it vice-versa as well, so we can see where you would put the occupants of the actual top five. Obviously, actual names are not necessary; my example below works fine. I know trying to define intelligence is difficult and potentially inaccurate, which is why the ranking are supposed to be based on your perceptions. I think indescribable gut feelings and perceptions are actually the most accurate in this regard, because they are based on interactions that are the most indicative of a person's true mental capacity.</p>
<p>For mine:</p>
<p>Intelligence, then class rank:</p>
<p>1 - (3)
2 - (5)
2 - (4)
4 - (12)
5 - (7)</p>
<p>Inverse:</p>
<p>1 - (9)
2 - (7)
3 - (1)
4 - (2)
5 - (2)</p>
<p>If you want to expand to top ten, feel free. I don't know my class rankings well enough past 5 to do that, but others may have been more curious/nosy/benefited by the counseling department than me.</p>
<p>Intelligence, then class rank:
1 - 1
2 - 2
3 - 50 (lol)
4 - 3
5 - 4</p>
<p>you actually have to be smart to do well in my school and generally students who have high class ranks are smart (they understand concepts faster, etc…) The third-smartest guy is ranked relatively low (we have 627 students) because he messed up his freshman year but since then took the most rigorous schedule in the school and received straight A’s</p>
<p>Not sure of the rankings, but in my school, not many kids in the top 5 are really smart, they’re just hard workers. Many of my friends are extremely smart, but are extremely lazy in their classes and therefore get lower GPA’s and class rankings.</p>
<p>I am el numero uno for my freshman class as of the first quarter. I would also consider myself the smartest, seeing as I want to get the hell out of my school and go to a prep school for the rest of high school. No body else at my hicktown HS is motivated, at all.</p>
<p>But otherwise, I don’t know rankings. I just asked to see ppl’s report cards and lo and behold! My 3.95 kicks everyone’s ass.</p>
<p>That’s really difficult for me to say because, like you said, intelligence is hard to define. One of our smartest guys has a pretty low rank, though, because he doesn’t do any work like homework/lab write-ups, which are enormous chunks of our grades. It’s a shame.</p>
<p>What on earth? I am frightened not only by your knowledge of other people’s grades but the fact that the idea of a thread like this was even considered.</p>
<p>It seems like a lot of the time people make assumptions about how hard other people work. Maybe they’re just better at not letting their laziness get in the way of good grades.</p>
<p>One thing that people need to remember is that if you get good grades, you are intelligent BUT if you are intelligent, you don’t necessarily get good grades.</p>
<p>I’d say that some of the more intelligent people in my high school didn’t always get the highest grades.
Some people just care more than others.</p>
<p>That’s not necessarily true. The girl that’s #5 at my school consistently gets A’s in lower AP classes, but she hasn’t taken any really difficult classes. I was really surprised when I found out her rank was that high, because I don’t think anyone would say she’s much smarter than average college-bound student at our school.</p>
<p>Mondo, getting good grades doesn’t automatically mean you’re intelligent. It just means you work hard. And working hard doesn’t mean you’re intelligent.</p>
<p>Don’t exactly know my top 5 or anything but I can guarentee the top 3 are not the most intelligent by far. In fact, they understand and comprehend very little, they are just excellent memorizers.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t understand what the problem with this is. If someone could elaborate, that would be greatly appreciated, because you are obviously finding something wrong I seemingly can’t.</p>