<p>EAD - here are some things that come to mind when I think “street smart”</p>
<ul>
<li>walking into a room and getting a good sense for the dynamic going on at that moment</li>
<li>during a meeting, being able to sense from both body language, and intonatiion, what people are <em>reallly</em> thinking, regardless of their word choice</li>
<li>understanding exactly what it is that each person that you work with and for wants, and needs, and figuring out a way to help them achieve that</li>
<li>encountering a problem, and thinking out of the box to solve it in some common sense way that seemed to have escaped everyone else (Warren Buffett is a good example of this one)</li>
<li>knowing what to say, and what to do in social and business situations that makes others say “I like working with that person. I like it when they’re around.”</li>
<li>figuring out the difference between what a person or organization says is important, and what is actually important to them/it.</li>
</ul>
<p>stuff like that that has very little correlation to the SAT, grammar, spelling, punctuation, gpa, or technical knowledge, and of course nothing to do with character. Those are really three legs of a stool.</p>