How many VERY intelligent people do you know with crap GPA/test scores?

InquilineKea · 10-01-2007, 04:16 AM

I just want to hear of people's general impressions of those whose test scores/GPA deviate from what they seem capable of (and the number of them)

DeluxeHardballer · 10-01-2007, 04:22 AM

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SilverClover · 10-01-2007, 07:30 AM

Quite a few. Most of the very intelligent people I know don't have great time management skills (myself included!) and we use our intelligence for things that aren't school related too much. All of my friends involved in politics or activism put way too much focus on that and their GPAs are disproportionately low. But hey, one of these friends just got back from a UN conference in Geneva and has met Kofi Annan enough times that Annan now recognizes him and knows his name- and all of this at age 19. I'd trade that for a 4.0 any day!

kenshi · 10-01-2007, 09:18 AM

Um who the hell cares about GPAs and test scores. When your adult you will realize that no longer matters in the real world. Hell you will realize it never matters.

AUlostchick · 10-01-2007, 11:34 AM

A few. My friend Jennifer is brilliant at math (one of those people in high school who always had 100's on every math test) and still only scored like a 22-23 on the ACT. Some people just don't test well.

I also know someone who scored really great on the ACT (30-33 range) and he's a total ****** who almost flunked out of college first semester because he partied too much and failed almost everything.

wutangfinancial · 10-01-2007, 03:49 PM

yep, I know a kid who scored a 1560 on the old SAT and dropped out of high school to shoot dope. So, his GPA was not very good, seeing as he dropped out.

juanmvenegas · 10-04-2007, 02:31 PM

Well guys, there was a guy who didnt do very well in school but seemed to be rather smart: Albert Einstein. But seriously, GPA doesnt define someone, but it does show others that you are actually capable of stuff becasue nowadays few people have the time to learn about other people, they only have the posibbility to see the statisstics......

chuy · 10-04-2007, 06:19 PM

Quite a few. Intelligence doesn't equal hard work. One of the 10 smartest people I know I graduated with, and I'll guarantee that you could drop him into any of my sophomore engineering classes (very hard stuff) and he'd be able to learn it, easily. He's working at a gas station now (since he got fired from a supermarket) because he barely passed highschool and didn't want to mess around with college. The guy could literally do anything, and could STILL probably do anything if he'd just go to college now, but he doesn't want to put in the work.

But it got me to thinking, if he ends up getting a job and is able to sustain it and provide for his (eventual) family, so what? It's how he chose to live his life and he owes the rest of society nothing, even though he has a lot of mental gifts.

beanieboo · 10-05-2007, 12:37 AM

ive seen more intelligent people with low test scores than i low GPA. my four best friends back home are VERY intelligent, got great grades in HS. but id say only two of them got SAT scores that correlated to their GPA, the other two did terrible considering how smart they are. and me.. i didnt do anything for half of high school so my GPA is much lower then what you would expect from my SAT scores.

person1 · 10-05-2007, 12:53 AM

same with me my act scores dont match up with my ****ty gpa its just i dont try in high school

CH3CH2OH · 10-05-2007, 01:07 AM

I know a lot of smart people with crap GPAs. I don't really know any smart people with crap test scores though.

mme-lin · 10-05-2007, 06:56 AM

^Yeah, like Engineers!

mariacamilaperez · 10-05-2007, 10:57 AM

wow, I also heard that Einstein, he had a very bad reputation in school he repeated several years of school and he was extremely intelligent a ganious, you see there a lot of stupid people arround the world and they just study and study and study and aren't still as inteligent as oithers...GPA isnt't everything, the abilities and skill you have for diifferent situations are what count,.s

Camila LG · 10-05-2007, 11:00 AM

i know lots of people which i know are very smart but simply dont do well in the SAT test, i specifically know of a girl which had a great Gpa and extracurricular activities, unfortunatley her score was very low, but colleges gave her the opportunity and looked at the great things she has accomplishe in highschool

ttosh009 · 10-08-2007, 07:33 PM

yes i know many. 90% of Reed College would be my guess. Underachieving Geniuses Unite!