Also, you will notice that they use freshman college grades in the comparison. As you move on in college and the coursework becomes more difficult, sheer intelligence becomes more important than it was in freshman year.
An awful lot of people would like to deny the role, or even the existence of intelligence--about 50 percent of the population, as a matter of fact.
At my college, it was the kids that worked hard that did well in the upper grades.
I knew plenty of kids with high IQs that had always had it easy in school, and they didn’t know how to work or study. They flunked out.
My 13 year old son has a very high IQ, but he is a bit lazy. My husband and I are trying to figure out how to get him to be a harder worker.
I also have a special needs daughter who has a low average IQ. She has a brain injury that has affected her auditory processing, language, and memory. I will add that her math skills were not affected and she is gifted at math. Everyone that knows her thinks she will do well in life because she is an extremely hard worker. She just got a 100% on her last science test. It took hours of studying. Her gifted twin sister got the same test score with little studying. However, the results were the same. My daughter does get some accomodations in school, mainly extra time on tests. She sometimes doesn’t even need the extra time.
To me, a kid with an IQ of 90 with straight As is more impressive than a kid with an IQ of 130 with the same grades.
I’ll be very curious to see how my kids handle college. I will also add that I do think my special needs kid will need some help in college. She’s looking at majoring in accounting. I think she’ll be good at accounting, and who cares if she can’t write a creative story very well or if she doesn’t understand all the symbolism in some novels.