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<p>Maybe I’m applying my stereotype a bit too broadly and I apologize if it offended anyone but that has just been my personal experience across h.s., undergrad, and in my career. Like you said maybe I have lived in a different type of community from the one that others have lived in. Obviously I have met people with “perfect” CVs (from a test score and GPA perspective) that did have social skills but I found this to be very rare, particularly in my career. As a former investment banker and current employee at a F500 tech company, I’ve come to see countless cases of analysts or engineers that we’ve interviewed that on paper were perfect (top grades, test scores, etc etc) but once you talked to them you realized that their social skills / EQ were non-existant. One of the most interesting things I’ve come to learn is that the most successful people are those that meet the minimum bar of intelligence but have out of this world drive, social skills, and EQ - all coupled with a deep network of well connected individuals. Honestly, this is part of the reason why, at least on wall street, you see a disproportiate amount of former 2.5-3.0 GPA Ivy athletes in the upper echelons of management as opposed to the extremely intelligence / perfect score people that just don’t have the social / people skills to move up the management chain where your ability to relate to clients, be personable, manage / motivate employees, and sell are much more important than intelligence.</p>