WHOAH!!! You're putting words in my mouth. Let me explain. I never said the girls were dumber than I was at all bro. What I said was that they aren't necessarily MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ME but they have a piece of paper which is a manifistation of their academic achievements. I PERSONALLY, don't give a flying fuck what kind of degree a person has but other people and hb's-NOT ME- put emphasis on the degree and also its a little embarrasiing when talking to a hb and she has a PhD and I am a college dropout. Here is a very recent example:
I was at a party last weekend and I met this hb10 there who exuded class and I was immediately very, very attracted to her, so I opened her and negged her...blah,blah, anyway we were talking and she asked me what I do and I said ECommerce which is true, but what I do is work at a grocery store and when people order things online I take the invoice, fill the order and ship it out. Well, ironically she does ECommerce too, but on the business end of it at a corporate level while I'm wearing my plastic name tag! She's telling me she has a Master's degree in business and she what she does and though what both did is called the same thing, we are on opposite ends. She didn't realize this and was using terms she expected me to I didn't understand. I was tongue tied and I had to explain what I did and that I was in college getting a bachelor's degree in business (which is bullshit) I was intimidated and though she and I were obviously on the same level, she has a paper to prove it...

what happened after that?

You mean with that girl?? Her husband came over and told me that was his wife. LOL Funny thing was, she DIDN"T tell me she was married. Especially funny because she knows that I know her husband pretty well (knew he was married just never thought he'd have a wife like THAT!) and you would think she would have said "I'm Allison, Brian's wife." No, she just said "I'm Allison." A blind person could see I was hitting on her...I don't know if that was an IOI or not...

But if you are socially ranked way lower than a woman (e.g. you are a college dropout with a regular job, she has a masters degree in biz and a rocketing career, making lets say $ 20,000+ / month) the game is different. You will have a very hard time DHV'ing yourself career-wise, one thought would be playing the badboy card, we all know the nice and successful women love the badboy!

Otherwise.. She is probably very result orientated, so if you don't have any results to back you up, you'll need a good story to explain her, why you haven't really had a breaktrough in your life.

I know many high class women and having dropped out from college (or something similar) is a major turnoff and DLV for them.