Change in educational attainment in the Pittsburgh MSA (2000-2012)

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by sealie

And honestly, not all of life success is about your IQ. Most of it isn't. A lot of academic success in STEM is just a long slog through problem sets and semester projects, and someone with a 120 IQ can probably outperform someone with a 160 if they can lock themselves in the library and make it through the slog. This is probably even more true about law school. There were a lot of Indians and Chinese in my classes and not all of them were geniuses, but lots of them should have been paying rent in the lab for as much time as they spent there. Only about 2 percent of the population are Stanford-Binet certifiable geniuses, but we need a lot of programmers and engineers and research scientists - figure it out.

IIRC, there's a greatly diminishing return in most professions after 125 or so. I wasn't trying to suggest it was the be-all/end-all.

And surprising as it may sound, law school success is a lot more about strategic planning than brute force studying, not that there's a high barrier to entry there, either. With a couple notable exceptions, 1st-year law classes are curved, so you're fighting against your classmates in the first place, however smart they may be.

[Goodjules]

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