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Originally Posted by Scrub0
Agreed - good post.
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While college may not be a perfect or even good indication of someone's raw intelligence, it is very good at indicating one's work ethic and ambition.
Usually you will find that the majority of college students who attend a top university are VERY motivated; they may not be smarter on a raw scale than someone who didn't go to university (but they usually are since they take the TIME to use and develop their brains), but they damn as hell made sure they worked their butt off to get where they want. I think that counts for alot.
This is similar to what scores indicate for standardized tests - the SAT is relatively "easy" given enough preparation.. but how much ambition and motivation does someone have to actually make sure they will do well? There are exceptions - the smart kids don't have to study as much, but in general your average 120-140 IQ kid has to prepare similarly...
The great thing about going to a top university is that most of hte kids you meet have a similarly high work ethic / ambition as yourself; even if on a raw scale the distribution of IQ's has a similar spread as the avg population (with a center skewed towards the high end however), they all have alot of ambition which only drives yourself to even further propel yourself..
edit: the previous "stat" was pulled outta my ass, but it was just an example