Careful, your superiority complex is showing.
Two persons qualified saying the same thing, two important characters in the story telling you about his genius, DPC really wants us to buy into that. Not only that, emphasizing he is one of their best, if only he would apply himself, Maya as well tells Fuckface there is more to Derek. But that is the problem we are only told, we are never shown a single use of his superior and deep intellect.
The smart and deep Derek is completely inept in any social interactions with anyone not in the DIK fraternity, he is so deep that he shoots vodka tampons up his ass, tries to win the lottery to help his sister, blabs every secret any time someone tells him something, constantly puts his foot in his mouth with Jade and the feminists, truly the mark of a smart and deep person that one. I am sure after he gets his ass chewed the 7th time he will learn

Trying to prank his roommate and getting his shit pushed in, while depending on route, needing said roommate to keep quiet about Fuckface staying in the room. Fucking octogenarians to win points in fucking Hell Week...
I haven't played in a year, I bet there are countless more.
Do we even need to mention all his
drunken shenanigans? , running naked at the feminist protest, screwing himself with Ashley, trying to fly the fire extinguisher? Telling all his cheating ways to a very, very hard to recognize Bella? It took Sage 3 seconds to recognize her, but who's counting.
Why is he the only character that does all those things when drunk? Because he already has two braincells while sober. Deep braincells, my bad.