The phrase "a brainy student" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a student who is intelligent or clever, often in an academic context.
Example: "She was always the top of her class, known as a brainy student among her peers."
Alternatives: "an intelligent student" or "a clever student."
Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
Across the country, states vary wildly in terms of how much money they provide for gifted programs and the criteria they use to identify and test brainy students.
The room's minimalist decor is sleek and cool, and the cocktail menu keeps the hip crowd – fashionable twentysomethings and brainy students from nearby MIT – dancing until last call.
There is the yearning of a brainy reporter on a student newspaper to be not a mere Rhodes Scholar, but rather a "Bad-Ass Rhodie", a category which assures not only your intellectual independence, but also a place among the emerging merito-aristocracy.
A brainy, ebullient kid, Jeffrey is an excellent student, active in high-school government, with a number of close friends.
This biography describes a brainy, charming, pot-smoking, emotionally remote Columbia student -- except for the pot part, sound familiar?
MARIANGELA LISANTI, a senior at Staples High School in Westport, sparkled among some of the brainiest students in the nation.
Since you realise that the best is impossible (especially at higher levels, where subjects get too unwieldy to pin down, and where brainier students abound) you sulk and do nothing at all.
Stanford's brainiest students come to David Cheriton for startup advice and money.
Moore's latest novel, about a Midwestern college student who hires on as a nanny for a brainy couple on the eve of adoption, brandishes some big material -- war, racism -- in a resolutely insouciant key.
Chloe Hooper is a young Australian writer whose first book, "A Child's Book of True Crime," published in 2002, was a brainy erotic thriller about a 22-year-old schoolteacher who has an affair with a student's father.
