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I added a poll.  Everyone submit your answers!
 
I read a lot of psychology articles, and apparently a large majority of gifted college students are either INTJ or INTP.  Not that others can't be gifted or are not gifted, these types are most prevalent among gifted data.  Coincidentally, these types are also the rarest.  As someone else mentioned, INxx types are rare, period.  So what's the gist here?  The rarest types are abundant among gifted IQ scores and higher education.  There has to be some kind of similarity in the way our brains download and process reality.
 
I love to theorize on the personality characteristics of intelligence in my spare time, and another thread in the lobby right now made me want to ask this.
 
Just for fun as well, was anyone else in the gifted program during school?  I'd LOVE to hear what personality types were in gifted programs.  As I already said, I'm an INTJ and I was in the gifted program.

I added a poll.  Everyone submit your answers!
 
I read a lot of psychology articles, and apparently a large majority of gifted college students are either INTJ or INTP.  Not that others can't be gifted or are not gifted, these types are most prevalent among gifted data.  Coincidentally, these types are also the rarest.  As someone else mentioned, INxx types are rare, period.  So what's the gist here?  The rarest types are abundant among gifted IQ scores and higher education.  There has to be some kind of similarity in the way our brains download and process reality.
 
I love to theorize on the personality characteristics of intelligence in my spare time, and another thread in the lobby right now made me want to ask this.
 
Just for fun as well, was anyone else in the gifted program during school?  I'd LOVE to hear what personality types were in gifted programs.  As I already said, I'm an INTJ and I was in the gifted program.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but sometimes friendship isn't always about being around when they're doing things you're interested in or even approve of.  My best friend has been in and out rehab and off/on drugs a majority of our friendship.  When she relapses, I'm there for her.  When she is clean and sober, I cherish those months with her and praise her every step of the way.  She's a "super senior" in undergrad and struggles to attend class, much less do the work or make very good grades.  Grad school is out of the question with this friend.  But I love her regardless, I value her as a person, and I cannot imagine my life without her in it.  We laugh until we cry, share an incredible dancing hobby together, and she is my rock when I need her as well.  The best friendships and relationships are give and take.  I think someone else said this as well, it may have been what you quoted for the above response, but find yourself a truly valuable friendship and you will suddenly find much more joy out of life.  I promise.

What a nasty person you are.  I know how to add and subtract.  I just feel sorry for people who are so elitist, and unhappy, as you are.  Your attitude will find you nothing but money in life.  I hope you feel better now that you've power tripped.  Congrats!  You're good at math AND English!  You must be of superior genetics.

Hallelujah!  Seriously, I wonder every time I come into contact with Gnome and select others on these forums why they go out of their way to belittle others.  His reputation in the positive two hundreds+ makes me feel very sad about the state of mind some forum members have.  I just don't get it.  No one in this entire thread bragged about anything.. I just asked questions I thought were interesting.  
 
Gnome, picking on others constantly and consistently makes you appear to be the inwardly hurt one (for one reason or another, I'm not your therapist, just a sufferer of your negativity) and your "followers" also appear to suffer from the same cynical attitude.  Kindness is the universal language.  Learn to speak it.
 
Humor at the cost of others is never funny.  It does, however, reflect on you negatively.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but sometimes friendship isn't always about being around when they're doing things you're interested in or even approve of.  My best friend has been in and out rehab and off/on drugs a majority of our friendship.  When she relapses, I'm there for her.  When she is clean and sober, I cherish those months with her and praise her every step of the way.  She's a "super senior" in undergrad and struggles to attend class, much less do the work or make very good grades.  Grad school is out of the question with this friend.  But I love her regardless, I value her as a person, and I cannot imagine my life without her in it.  We laugh until we cry, share an incredible dancing hobby together, and she is my rock when I need her as well.  The best friendships and relationships are give and take.  I think someone else said this as well, it may have been what you quoted for the above response, but find yourself a truly valuable friendship and you will suddenly find much more joy out of life.  I promise.

Haha, my Feeling is very developed for an INTJ.  I also like to take enneagram quizzes, and I'm a very odd INTJ type.  I'm an INTJ-4w:  Individualist: sensitive, withdrawn type; intuitive, artistic, aesthetic, self-absorbed, and depressive.
 
Thank you for your kindness.  I hope everyone else enjoys it too!

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but sometimes friendship isn't always about being around when they're doing things you're interested in or even approve of.  My best friend has been in and out rehab and off/on drugs a majority of our friendship.  When she relapses, I'm there for her.  When she is clean and sober, I cherish those months with her and praise her every step of the way.  She's a "super senior" in undergrad and struggles to attend class, much less do the work or make very good grades.  Grad school is out of the question with this friend.  But I love her regardless, I value her as a person, and I cannot imagine my life without her in it.  We laugh until we cry, share an incredible dancing hobby together, and she is my rock when I need her as well.  The best friendships and relationships are give and take.  I think someone else said this as well, it may have been what you quoted for the above response, but find yourself a truly valuable friendship and you will suddenly find much more joy out of life.  I promise.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but sometimes friendship isn't always about being around when they're doing things you're interested in or even approve of.  My best friend has been in and out rehab and off/on drugs a majority of our friendship.  When she relapses, I'm there for her.  When she is clean and sober, I cherish those months with her and praise her every step of the way.  She's a "super senior" in undergrad and struggles to attend class, much less do the work or make very good grades.  Grad school is out of the question with this friend.  But I love her regardless, I value her as a person, and I cannot imagine my life without her in it.  We laugh until we cry, share an incredible dancing hobby together, and she is my rock when I need her as well.  The best friendships and relationships are give and take.  I think someone else said this as well, it may have been what you quoted for the above response, but find yourself a truly valuable friendship and you will suddenly find much more joy out of life.  I promise.

Why is it nice to fit into a category? Seems a bit 1930's Germany to me. 
 
 
I agree. That's what was kind of annoying earlier in this thread when everyone was boasting about their introvertedness and the OP kept trying to make the correlation between introvert and intellect. Nerds like to make themselves feel good about themselves by justifying their awkwardness. I guess technically I'm an introvert, but I'm more of the sit in the corner of a dimly lit bar drinking whiskey type than a stay at home on a Friday night revising a potential writing sample type. 

nah but it's super fun. i like personality quizzes. i've even taken meyer-briggs "officially" (i.e. more than 40 questions, full diagnostics of my percentages of each one, etc) which was paid for by a student group I was a part of. We also did the five factor. 
 
((I always get supremely amused by how poorly people misunderstand Extrovert vs Introvert personality types. Of course ~~all the introverts are supremely gifted amazing wonderful people who pursue higher degrees~~~ Oops, that's me laughing. There's at best loose correlation between intellect and introversion. Anything to feel special, I guess?)) 

Please don't tell me anyone here takes this "personality test" that seriously.

supaslim apparently has a blog dedicated to giving advice to people dealing with INTJ, as if it's some kind of condition. I think people love to attach themselves to some kind of label. Attaching yourself to a personality type that's determined by some bullshit 72 question Yes or No test you can breeze through in 5 minutes on the internet is a bit ridiculous. Reminds me of a friend I had who really wanted Asperger's. He was so disappointed when the doctor said he just had horrible social skills. 

It's more of a system of categorization than a personality test of the sort that tells you your spirit animal or hogwarts house or whatever. It's just a tool. It is often misused and misunderstood; it is supposed to outline how you think based on you, not tell you how you ought to think. Similar to how we examine species physically and genetically to place them on a phylogenetic tree; we don't say that echidnas and hedgehogs are clearly closely related because they look alike. Instead we examine each separately and come to independent conclusions about where they belong in the tree.
 
In the same way, MBTI examines each person individually and classifies them under a type. Each type only broadly outlines how that person's thought processes may work; it doesn't dictate how each person has to think based on outside impressions. And all the stereotypes that come along with it- INTJs as evil geniuses, ENFPs as bubbly airheads, what have you- are just stereotypes and should not be given much attention.
 
It's not something I live my life by. Everyone is an individual, and there are more than 16 kinds of people in the world. Still, I don't think it's entirely unfounded when you strip away the layers of bs that people have flippantly piled onto it, and it definitely helps me communicate with people who are very different from me. If nothing else, it's a good window for introspection.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but sometimes friendship isn't always about being around when they're doing things you're interested in or even approve of.  My best friend has been in and out rehab and off/on drugs a majority of our friendship.  When she relapses, I'm there for her.  When she is clean and sober, I cherish those months with her and praise her every step of the way.  She's a "super senior" in undergrad and struggles to attend class, much less do the work or make very good grades.  Grad school is out of the question with this friend.  But I love her regardless, I value her as a person, and I cannot imagine my life without her in it.  We laugh until we cry, share an incredible dancing hobby together, and she is my rock when I need her as well.  The best friendships and relationships are give and take.  I think someone else said this as well, it may have been what you quoted for the above response, but find yourself a truly valuable friendship and you will suddenly find much more joy out of life.  I promise.

You know, I always try to avoid threads when you're in them. You're such a freaking party pooper.

I like self reflection. It can be fun. This was fun. I enjoyed looking at the poll, and I like seeing how other people see themselves. Obviously people can influence their results, but that's also important in a different way.

Anyway, I also enjoyed doing the love languages test. It really helped me realize how I show love to others and helped me appreciate the love they send my way. I highly recommend it to others! (iirc, it's much shorter than MB, too, lol)

Quit trying so hard.  As others have mentioned, your attitude towards dating right now is unhealthy.
 
You're setting yourself up for an unhappy at best, and abusive/dependent relationship at worst.
 
Obviously you are wildly intelligent and capable of living life while sailing your own ship, alone.  The best love will find you when you're a whole, happy person yourself--your radiance will attract other whole, happy people.  I know we're probably not deterring you much based on your replies, but please file our posts away somewhere in the back of your mind. 
 
You will be happy.  Time is the best remedy for everything.  Besides cancer.

Quit trying so hard.  As others have mentioned, your attitude towards dating right now is unhealthy.
 
You're setting yourself up for an unhappy at best, and abusive/dependent relationship at worst.
 
Obviously you are wildly intelligent and capable of living life while sailing your own ship, alone.  The best love will find you when you're a whole, happy person yourself--your radiance will attract other whole, happy people.  I know we're probably not deterring you much based on your replies, but please file our posts away somewhere in the back of your mind. 
 
You will be happy.  Time is the best remedy for everything.  Besides cancer.

She did get accepted into 4/4 of the programs she applied to.

Quit trying so hard.  As others have mentioned, your attitude towards dating right now is unhealthy.
 
You're setting yourself up for an unhappy at best, and abusive/dependent relationship at worst.
 
Obviously you are wildly intelligent and capable of living life while sailing your own ship, alone.  The best love will find you when you're a whole, happy person yourself--your radiance will attract other whole, happy people.  I know we're probably not deterring you much based on your replies, but please file our posts away somewhere in the back of your mind. 
 
You will be happy.  Time is the best remedy for everything.  Besides cancer.

Quit trying so hard.  As others have mentioned, your attitude towards dating right now is unhealthy.
 
You're setting yourself up for an unhappy at best, and abusive/dependent relationship at worst.
 
Obviously you are wildly intelligent and capable of living life while sailing your own ship, alone.  The best love will find you when you're a whole, happy person yourself--your radiance will attract other whole, happy people.  I know we're probably not deterring you much based on your replies, but please file our posts away somewhere in the back of your mind. 
 
You will be happy.  Time is the best remedy for everything.  Besides cancer.

Didn't you get a 130 on the GRE? Now you keep proclaiming yourself as gifted. I guess I'm not a fan of self appraisal.

For what it's worth, I got into an MA with a ridiculously low math score. I was 99th percentile on the verbal (730 according to the old scale), and 5.5 on the writing, but something like 30th percentile (or maybe even lower?) on the math. And for schools that don't have the cutoff, there are a bunch of admits like me out there in English/Humanities.
 
I'm rooting for you, OP, and if/when you get in, your verbal/linguistic strength will carry the day. And even if you decide to retake the GRE and reapply, I think it's much healthier and productive to just realize, hey, I'm way talented in this other area, and so by applying to a humanities-based program, I'm playing to my strengths. That's that. That doesn't mean math disappears from life but don't dwell on it - it just happens not to be the currency you truck in.  And in studying for the GRE, even though I sucked so bad at math, even I could tell that there are "tricks" to doing well. It is a nut that can be cracked, which is the maddening part...for people like me and you who struggle at it, we have to decide what's worth it...how much work should you put into something that may or may not matter?  It's a tough call. I half-assed it by studying a little, and throwing the rest of my blood/sweat/tears to parts of my application that I knew I could make stand out in a big way. But...any given math problem on the GRE is an invitation to find the shortcut rather than just have the general knowledge to slog out the arithmetic. I've thought a lot about this, because at first it angered me, but then I realized that no matter how flawed a standardized test might be, there is actually a pedagogical angle to it if what we're testing is aptitude. Recognizing a trick or shortcut instantly?  Might seem unfair or somehow loaded, but for those with real aptitude, I guess the case can be made that it's justifiable (?).  We could actually look at the verbal in the same way, you just don't realize it because it comes so naturally to you. Bam: aptitude.  Imagine having to slowly think through subject-verb agreement. It might sound ridiculously basic, but that's essentially what we're doing on math, or what people who learn English as a second (or third or fourth or fifth) language might experience on the verbal. In a weird way, it's a way of overthinking it. A good study guide that fits your learning style can get you some big mileage in that regard. 
 
Or, maybe try one of those Kaplan-style workshops that guarantees raising your score by so many points? I have no experience with those, but a guarantee sounds nice, right?

What a nasty person you are.  I know how to add and subtract.  I just feel sorry for people who are so elitist, and unhappy, as you are.  Your attitude will find you nothing but money in life.  I hope you feel better now that you've power tripped.  Congrats!  You're good at math AND English!  You must be of superior genetics.

I just got my scores for the GRE back.
 
160 verbal, 130 quant.  6 writing.  I'm pretty sure I have a learning disability re: math, but no doctor's note or any prescriptions to indicate so.
 
I am applying for a MA (not PhD) in English/Humanities at UIC and U of Chicago.  Is my math score going to exclude me from these programs?
 
3.78 undergrad GPA, 3 strong letters.
 
I just want to know if I'll be wasting the app fee.