<p>Didn’t mean to suggest this was necessarily a measurable quality on an application. What I meant was, your idea of what constitutes intelligence may change after getting to know people who didn’t take 11 APs (or maybe they did), but who can run a dairy farm, design a green building, make a jacket that a blind child can manage without help, throw a spectacular weekend event for industry bigwigs, etc. There’s a lot to learn from people who are not studying liberal arts or engineering, and that’s part of what makes Cornell such an interesting place and different from other Ivy League universities. Just keep an open mind.</p>