<p>Whatever you say, but it’s not like the science section is anything more than an extended reading comprehension section. Still don’t believe you.</p>
<p>When we got our PSAT and PLAN scores in school, my friend saw my scores and started waving them in the air in total shock and screaming about them (221 and 30 respectively). I received a request to take someone’s SAT for her, and a request to give someone a brain transplant.
I think my school’s much better for my self esteem than CC is… :)</p>
<p>^Funny! People start looking at my PSAT scores and were like ***! When they saw that I had a 53 on the math back in Sophomore year.</p>
<p>I guess it’s our schools…
I mean, it’s funny, because there are a lot of kids in my class who I thought would do much, much better than I did- but they didn’t. They’re really smart and get much better grades than I do. (in fact, one of them was the one who wanted some of my brain- I told her sorry, but no; I like my skull in one, unfractured piece).
I think my good standardized test scores are somewhat akin to my mental Harry Potter trivia bank- useful in very, very specific cases and otherwise pretty much something totally inapplicable that will annoy people if I talk about them too much :).</p>
<p>“I mean maybe I’m just not great at science or something…but that doesn’t mean…that they’re smarter than I am”</p>
<p>Sure it does (at least in a certain way). And that’s okay, because:</p>
<p>“There will always be someone that is smarter than you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you’ll be with what you have, and you can apply that to making your life better.”</p>
<p>And there are different kinds of intelligence, so I wouldn’t go around saying anyone is smarter than anyone else <em>in general.</em>
Usually when people describe themselves as “smart” they mean “good at academics,” but that’s just one kind of intelligence.</p>
<p>halcyonheather- people who describe themselves as “smart” may have book smarts, but they’re probably sure lacking people smarts…
It’s like was saying before- I got higher standardized test scores than my friend who has a much higher GPA. Does that mean one or the other of us is smarter than the other? Not necessarily- maybe IQ-wise, one really is smarter. But smart is not only such a huge amalgam (I love that word- it’s really onomatopoeic) of different things, it’s also part of a different group of traits, each of which is pretty much meaningless alone but when they’re put together are actually what make you YOU.</p>
<p>“but they’re probably sure lacking people smarts…”</p>
<p>That would be a stereotype.</p>
<p>Since I have a 4.0 UW GPA and 2100+ SAT score everyone thinks I can get into Harvard… LOL. Also, when I tell people I’m retaking the SAT, they look at me like I’m crazy since “I already have a 2100+.” Sigh.</p>
<p>No, you’re missing my point.
Someone DESCRIBING him/herself as smart would be committing at the least a clueless social faux pas and at the most the kind of stuck-up thing that will have people running away from you as fast as they can go.
On rethinking that, maybe not necessarily, though that has been my experience, that the people who harp on how smart they are end up annoying the heck out of me. But I don’t mean to stereotype that smart people are socially inept.
I know plenty of brilliant social butterflies, and, unfortunately, people who did not do well in either forte.</p>
<p>People smarts? Are those that jocks and people with all the friends?
Book Smart vs Street Smart…
Street Smart people know it’s going down when it’s going down. Book smart people need to use a little logic and comprehension to know when something is going down. Good thing I’m both. I’m lacking in people smart, But I’ll fix that in college.</p>
<p>It was just a way to word the sentence…
When someone is described by other people as smart, or when people view themselves as smart but don’t say it out loud, or when some parent says their kid is “smart but doesn’t apply himself!” they usually mean “good at academics.”</p>
<p>Oh, okay… sorry- I know I need sleep when I start picking at semantics (though it’s similar with that teacher’s blog post- she was talking about the “inane” things her students said [and no, she didn’t mean boring], I got really annoyed, and then the “I NEED SLEEP” alarm bell began to shrill).
Incidentally, I also know I need sleep when I start rambling…
Cheerio!</p>
<p>My school is as bad as CC 
There is no escaping…</p>
<p>My dad was convinced I could get into any and all Ivy schools. So I showed him the Princeton rejection thread on CC. He was shocked to see that people with 2380s and tons of prestigious awards didn’t get in.
Instead of calming down and putting less pressure on me, he now says I need to work harder to get in.
And everyone at school thinks I’m smart when I’m really not.
Ugh.</p>