<p>golacs wrote:
"People should realize that most of the students who go to the most selective schools are eventually ordinary people with average intelligence no matter how high their test scores are. "</p>
<p>and</p>
<h2>" … she definitely can do better than many of the Brown students no matter where she goes."</h2>
<p>Your first statement makes no sense.</p>
<p>I agree with your second statement. Success outside the world of elite colleges and Ph.D. research requires many qualities not possessed by the smartest people or geniuses:</p>
<p>1) emotional intelligence
2) drive
3) street smarts / good judgement
4) likeability
5) character (critical in the long run, not as much in the short run)</p>
<p>Test-smarts, or book-smarts, are only one kind of intelligence. But it matters very much at an elite university.</p>