Can I get into Mudd without being a genius?

atomicfusion
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:38:05 +0000

Oh come on. Nobody who got into Mudd from my school was a genius. That definitely includes me. Let’s not toss around compliments too quickly, or the term “genius” becomes really meaningless. I know a Mudd physics graduate + some who went there in my year + others like myself who just got in, and none of them qualifies as a genius. Same with Caltech…they’re very high scoring, good students, and far beyond the level of the tests like AP Physics and AP Calculus.



Note that I said “by the common definitions”. A Majority of Mudd (,Caltech, MIT, Olin) students have >135 IQ.