[quote=scaredyclassic]
it really does suck if you’re only comparing yourself to the top 10%. Also and this is the really shameful thing…I studied really hard to get that sad bottom half of the class of the top 10 % score. Maybe if I’d just gotten over the flu or something. But I felt great..

not getting into Harvard with that kind of moronic result.
[/quote]

Anything can suck if you’re comparing it to something.

One could say, “I’m in the bottom half of the 99th percentile. I’m not too bright.” Or “Son, you’re good at baseball but you suck compared to Babe Ruth.” At some point, it’s just ridiculous.

Not sure what you’re like in real life, scaredy, but if you’re half as fun, funny,intelligent, insightful, original, generous, and full of (a kind of understated) flair as you are on these pages, then you’re way higher than the 94th percentile of mental capacity by any measure that counts. Your talents are indeed quite rare. There’s no way in hell 6 people in a hundred could come up with the stuff you come up with. Not one in a thousand, if you ask me.

I’m a bit embarrassed to say all that because a) you don’t need me to tell you that and b)it sounds somewhat obsequious (and I despise obsequiousness). But there it is.