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<p>Oh, my bad. Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t bet that OP’s friend is real.</p>
<p>Saugus:
Sophomore year- Didn’t study anything at all from the start of school through March. Studied a little bit every night all through March, spent virtually all of my time studying until about halfway through June. Cover-to-covering 3 review books for every single tests with all of the practice tests was excessive.</p>
<p>Junior year- Took a total of 12 or so SAT practice tests over summer, so probably 40 hours of studying altogether. Did nothing until Christmas Break, and then spent every free minute with Moot Court, transitioned into spending every minute on SciOly, AP, SAT II, and ACT through mid-June. Junior year was pretty rough.</p>
<p>In general, I don’t do any studying for my classes outside of doing the homework and required reading. The AP classes at my school are pretty easy, and I have agreements with most of my teachers to get out of note-taking. On the average pre-senior year, non-March-to-June day, I’ll have maybe 4-6 hours of free time.</p>
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You sound like me. A coaster…</p>
<p>What I’ve accomplished first semester is one A, and 4 Bs which will be raised to As if I pass the AP exams. I feel guilty about this even though I know all I have to do is pass…</p>
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<p>I’m not trying to be a jerk or anything, but didn’t you have a D in Algebra?</p>
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<p>Good of you to note that IQ scores are not constant over the course of life for most individuals. </p>
<p>But an IQ score of 210 on any brand of IQ test is surely not a validated score and surely not comparable with scores in the 110 to 158 range that other readers of CC might have.</p>
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Yeah, that’s the thing that worries me most of all.</p>
<p>The Harvard undergraduate admissions guy at the phone line said that they’ll take the higher grade… But… I think he might be wrong. It just seems so forgiving.</p>
<p>tokenadult: The man had an IQ of 210 during his early ages, probably sometime around our age, and if I remember correctly, he was listed on the guiness records for his IQ so I guessed it was a validated test… Nevertheless, what I’m trying to say is whether this man would’ve been one of the "genius"es HYP is looking for</p>
<p>Are you talking about this guy: [Kim</a> Ung-yong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong]Kim”>Kim Ung-yong - Wikipedia)?</p>
<p>From the Wikipedia article: </p>
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<p>That still wouldn’t show that the test was correctly scored, even, and it definitely wouldn’t show that the test was ever validated for scores in that range. There is a woman who similarly has been mentioned as a Guiness Book of World Records listed person for highest IQ score, and I was eventually able to find out from a published news article that her test had simply been misscored, and is well known to be a test that was never properly validated for any range of IQ scores. (I took the same test in childhood. Elsewhere in cyberspace I have posted links to critiques of that test.)</p>
<p>If someone has an IQ of 167 and attends Harvard at 16, shouldn’t they be solving mathematical theorems rather than rotting away in jail?</p>
<p>IQ has no correlation with morality.</p>
<p>stoompy, your post history reveals what a ■■■■■ you are. if your friend did exist (which is a big if), he is a very impressive person and obviously worthy of his spot at harvard. i’m not sure exactly what kind of discussion you’re trying to bait here.</p>
<p>BTW, anyone with a 2390 would be considered a genius at my school. i guess it depends on how stringent you are in your definition of genius. at my school, if you have a 32 or higher on the ACT, you are pretty much labeled a genius, which is not usually a good thing. here, intelligence is not really a desirable trait. </p>
<p>also, i think that awards are not necessarily indicative of genius, although of course i am very impressed by ISEF/Davidson/other major award recipients (and the people who receive awards at such high levels are probably geniuses). there are other geniuses who have not realized their potential in high school. i would say your “friend” may well be one of them.</p>
<p>Oh thank you Tres Elefantes! It’s remarkable how many people, including myself, have said that by now.</p>
<p>any time. :)</p>
<p>Sarcasm is a privilege reserved for people who aren’t ■■■■■■.</p>
<p>^hear, hear!</p>
<p>Does IQ actually fluctuate?..</p>
<p>I don’t think so. I believe IQ is a measure of your inherent abilities, and not as anything you can acquire or lose (Unless you use drugs or something).</p>
<p>An IQ should stay relatively stable throughout a person’s life.</p>
<p>I think the real issue here is people giving out fake IQ tests. I.E. If it’s a question where you have to have LEARNED something, it shouldn’t be on the IQ test.</p>
<p>A rural farmer could have a higher IQ than a guy who attends Harvard-Westlake, but those tests wouldn’t show that.</p>
<p>IQ varies from test to test. Unless you want people to take the same test over and over again, of course it will vary.</p>
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