Can I get into Mudd without being a genius?

mathboy98
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:56:14 +0000

“I suppose, but to me, a genius is someone for whom difficult material and concepts just come to naturally and without a lot of effort. I didn’t know many people like that when I was at Mudd.”

Yeah this coincides with my opinion of those accepted. There are surely geniuses out there, but there ain’t many, and chances are they’re scattered. It’s highly unlikely in my books that there is a single school in the U.S. where most students are geniuses…there are those of FAR higher level than even your standard image of a very smart student, but geniuses are far and few. I’d brush this off as whimsical use of terminology, but honestly we should at least preserve the integrity of the term to an extent.