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I was briefly excited as I met both GRE and SAT cutoffs. But now I'm feeling guilty and debating whether or not to apply; I'm certainly not in the 99.9th percentile. I absolutely love this community but I don't really post because I sincerely feel inadequate.
I'm easily in the 5th percentile, but I feel like an imposter with my standardized test scores: the tests are SO damn easy and don't measure anything of substance. GRE verbal tests your ability to recall obscure words, and the math tests your ability to maintain focus through 2 hours of trivial middle-school math. I didn't study at all.
That's what being intelligent is supposed to feel like!
Guilt is overrated. They say you qualify. Therefore you do. It's their study. In fact, if you do qualify but don't think you should then you are biasing their data against genes for low self esteem.
If you meet their samples then you should go for it. If they've already decided that those are the metrics they want to use then that's what matters for their data gathering purposes.
Also, if you have GRE and SAT scores in that range, while it is possible that they aren't really a reflection of intelligence in the 99.9th percentile (ignoring for now what intelligence means in any useful sense) one is almost certainly well above the 95th percentile.
Please sign up. Do you really believe that your perception of your abilities is more accurate than that of objective tests? And if you believe that you aren't that intelligent, then why do you trust your reasoning and not that of the researchers who designed the study? Do you think they've made some great error in selecting these criteria? Do you think you are smarter than them? ;) Either way, you definitely should sign up.
Oh, and you don't have to be in the 99,9th percentile. The 99,865th percentile totally suffices! ;)